A Contribution to the Dryadaulidae and Tineidae of Lebanon, with Two Species New to Science (Lepidoptera)
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Beiträge zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology (E-Journal) 66 (1): 145 – 152 2016 © Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 2016 A contribution to the Dryadaulidae and Tineidae of Lebanon, with two species new to science (Lepidoptera) With 7 figures Reinhard Gaedike 1, 2 and Jaakko Kullberg 3 1 Florusstraße 5, 53225 Bonn, Germany. – [email protected] 2 Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Straße 90, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany 3 Finnish Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 17, Zoology Unit., FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Published on 2016–06–30 Summary Data on recently collected Lebanese Dryadaulidae and Tineidae specimens is presented, as well as a review of previously published records from Lebanon. Altogether 32 species are listed, seven being new for the country. Two of them are described as new to science: Nemapogon phoenicica and Nemapogon shamica. Key words Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Dryadaulidae, Lebanon Zusammenfassung Die Arbeit ist eine Zusammenstellung der bisher aus dem Libanon bekannten Dryadaulidae und Tineidae. Es werden 32 Arten aufgelistet, sieben davon sind Erstfunde für das Land, zwei sind neu für die Wissenschaft, die hier beschrie- ben werden: Nemapogon phoenicica und Nemapogon shamica. Introduction Lebanon is a small, but biogeographically diverse area. mountains until late in summer (Room 2006). To the The Mediterranean Sea shore and adjacent heavily popu- east of Mount Lebanon lies the Beqaa rift valley, with the lated lowlands share a fauna similar to neighbouring Antilebanon mountains on the Syrian border. countries, but the highest mountain range of the area, Generally, in Lebanon and other Arabic speaking coun- the Mount Lebanon (Jabal Lubnān), makes a difference. tries, it is necessary to be careful with local names and The 170 km long mountain range divides Lebanon into their transliterations to various western languages and a humid western part and dry eastern part. The range is alphabets. In Lebanon the transliterated locality names on average 2500 meters high, the highest summit being differ remarkably, depending, on whether they are trans- Qurnat as Sawda’, at 3088 m. During winter the range is literated to French or English. Different Arabic dialects under thick snow cover, and the mountains have consid- and other local minority languages may also cause confu- erable resources of water. The name Lebanon originates sion in locality names. from the old Semitic word Ibn meaning white and is Because of the topography and the almost continuous an obvious reference to the snow, which remains in the mountain range from Lebanon to Syria and the Turkish ISSN 0005-805X DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.1.145-152 145 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Gaedike, R. & Kullberg, J.: A contribution to the Dryadaulidae and Tineidae of Lebanon Hatay province, some species are common not only to the Results Lebanese and Turkish fauna, but also to that of Central Europe. This can be seen especially at higher altitudes List of the hitherto known Dryadaulidae and of 1700–2300 m, where widespread Palaearctic butterfly Tineidae species from Lebanon species such as Parnassius mnemosyne (L.) and Melitaea cinxia (L.) occur, the Levant being the extreme southern The numeric codes starting with GK. refer to electronic limit of their range. specimen archives of the Finnish Museum of Natural The number of species in Lebanon (32) is nearly the History: http://id luomus.fi/ same as in the neighbouring countries Israel (30) and Syria (24), whereas in Turkey (92) and in Greece (114) many more species are known. The differences depend Dryadaulidae merely on the level of collecting activity hitherto under- taken, rather than the habitat diversity in these two According to recently published studies the genus countries. Dryadaula, hitherto regarded as a member of the subfamily Dryadau linae, is now placed in its own family: Dryadaulidae (Regier et al., 2014). Material The coastal Mediterranean area of Lebanon and the adja- Dryadaula minuta Gaedike, 2007 cent regions were frequently visited by collectors during a long period in the past. The results on the Tineidae 1 , GK.7854, Koura 308 m, 34°19'33"N, 35°47'24"E, collected at that time were published, together with a Beshmezzine, 3.vi.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: critical revision of the literature, by Petersen (1968) FMNH. and Petersen & Gaedike (1979). Recently the first New to Lebanon, hitherto known only from Turkey (type author has been able to study some additional material series) and Greece (Rhodes). from Lebanon, namely that collected by Groß (in LMD) and previously unstudied material collected by Zerny (in NMW). An important advance in the knowledge of Tineidae the Lebanese fauna was made, when the second author undertook two expeditions to the Mediterranean Leba- Meessiinae non and the Mount Lebanon range in 2010 (with Anssi Kullberg) and 2012 (with Tommi Lievonen). According Regier et al. (2014) Eudarcia Clemens, As the result of examining this material, a total of one 1860 and Bathroxena Meyrick, 1919 from the former Dryadaulidae and six Tineidae species were recorded as subfamily Meessiinae form a basal family Meessiidae in new to the Lebanese fauna. Two of them are also new to Tineoidea. As the positions of the majority of other Palae- science and are described below. arctic genera of the former subfamily Meessiinae are still uncertain, these genera are still placed here. Abbreviations Eudarcia holtzi (Rebel, 1902) coll. Arenberger Ernst Arenberger, Vienna, Austria coll. Roweck Hartmut Roweck, Kiel, Germany Holotype and paratype of the synonym of Obesoceras FMNH Finnish Museum of Natural History, libanoticum Petersen, 1968 are from Lebanon (Petersen, Helsinki, Finland 1968: 60). LMD Löbbecke-Museum, Düsseldorf, Ger- 3 , GK.7843, 7847, 7886, Koura 308 m, 34°19'33"N, many 35°47'24"E, Beshmezzine, 3.vi.2012, J. Kullberg & MNHP Museum of Natural History, Praha, T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH; SDEI (7847). Czech Republic NMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Infurcitinea karmeliella (Amsel, 1935) SDEI Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologi- sches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany Petersen (1986: 61) SMNK Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany 1 , Beqaa, 860 m, 33°43'57"N, 35°47'14"E, 2.ix.2010, ZMUC Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, leg. J. & A. Kullberg; FMNH; 1 , GK.6374, Kesrouan, Denmark 950 m, 34°03'57,85"N, 35°45'04,03"E, Jebel Musa, Mar Geryes, 25., 29.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH; 2 , GK.7231, 7261, Kesrouan, 1150 m, 146 DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.1.145-152 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENTOMOLOGY : BEITRÄGE ZUR ENTOMOLOGIE — 66 (1) 145–152 34°03'08,33"N, 35°46'03,87"E, Jebel Musa, Mar Elias, 3 , GK.8202, 8208, 8212, 8219, 8229, 8232, Kesrouan, 27.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH; SDEI. 900 m, 34°3'25,63"N, 35°04'07"E, Jebel Musa, St. Takla, 4.vi.2014, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.; FMNH; SDEI (GK.8208, 8233); 4 , 1 , GK.6441, 6444, 6461, 6474, Lichenotinea pustulatella (Zeller, 1952) 6616, Kesrouan, 950 m, 34°03'57,85"N, 35°45'04,03"E, Jebel Musa, Mar Geryes, 29.v.2014, J. Kullberg & 1 , GK.7240, Kesrouan 1130 m, 14°03'08,33", T. Lievonen leg.; FMNH; 6 , 4 , GK.8008–8010, 8193– 35°46'03,87" Jebel Musa, Mar Elias, 27.v.2012, J. Kullberg 9198, 8253, Kesrouan, 960 m, 34°03'57"N, 35°45'04"E, & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH; 2 , GK.6416, 6419, same Jebel Musa, Mar Geryes, 29.v.2014, J. Kullberg & location, but 29.v.2012: FMNH; SDEI (6419). T. Lievonen leg.; FMNH; SDEI (GK.8009, 8196); 1 , New to Lebanon, hitherto known from Spain, France, GK.8271, Kesrouan, 1150 m, 34°03'08"N, 35°46'03"E, Italy, from Balkan Peninsula to Romania, in Central Jebel Musa, Mar Elias, 6.vi.2014, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen Europe from Austria to Germany and Belgium. Outside leg.; FMNH; 5 , GK.5869–5871, 5916, 6331), Kesrouan, Europe recorded from Turkey. 1520 m, 34°02'56,69"N, 35°47'17,35"E, 2 km W Ain el Qadah, 29.v.2014, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.; FMNH; SDEI (GK.5331). Stenoptinea cyaneimarmorella (Millière, 1854) Petersen (1968: 58 [under the synonym Celestica angustipennis Pararhodobates syriaca (Lederer, 1857) Staudinger, 1871]). Holotype from Lebanon. Hapsiferinae Nemapogoninae Hapsifera luridella Zeller, 1847 Nemapogon kasyi Gaedike, 1986 Petersen (1968: 65) Part of type series from Lebanon. 6 exx., 12 km N Beirut [12 km N of Beirut], 9.vi.1969, leg. 5 , GK.4446, 4469, Kesrouan, 1070 m, 34°3,2'N, Groß: LMD; 35°45'48"E, Jebel Musa, 29.viii.2010, leg. J. & A. Kull- 10 exx., Zedern bei Becharré [Cedars of Bsharri], 14–16. berg: FMNH; SDEI (GK.4446); 1 , 1 , GK.7239, 7768, vi.1969, leg. Groß: LMD. Kesrouan, 1150 m, 34°03'08,33"N, 35°46'03,87"E, Jebel 4 , 1 , Batroun, 200 m, 34°16'50,72"N, 35°47'23,99"E, Musa, Mar Elias, 27., 31.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen Tel Ras Nhascl, 1.vi.2012, leg. J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen: leg.: FMNH. FMNH; 2 , GK.7943, Koura 308 m, 34°19'33"N, First records from Lebanon since the type series. 35°47'24"E, Beshmezzine, 3.vi.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH; 2 , GK.7272 & 7215, Kesrouan, 1150 m, 34°03'08.33"N, 35°46'03.87"E, Jebel Musa, Mar Nemapogon vartianae Gaedike, 1986 Elias, 27.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.; FMNH; 1 , GK.8217, Kesrouan, 900 m, 34°04'07"N, 35°45'10"E, Part of type specimens from Lebanon. Jebel Musa, St.