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Artikel/Article: Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica 59 1 Volume 59 – June 2017

The Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica

A kind reminder: please pay your membership fee – Rappel pour les paiements – Zur Erinnerung: bitte zahlen Sie Ihren Mitgliedsbeitrag ...... 2 2017 SEL General Meeting – Assemblée Générale – Generalversammlung ...... 3–7 New Council members 2017 ...... 8 2017 SEL Council Report – Rapport du Conceil – Bericht des Vorstandes ...... 9–13 New SEL committees: a call for collaboration! ...... 13 2017 SEL Treasurer’s report – Rapport financier – Kassenbericht ...... 14–19 New Treasurer: handing over the documents – Nouveau Trésorier: passation des documents – Neuer Schatzmeister: Übergabe der Unterlagen ...... 21 Changes to the list of members – Änderungen zur Mitgliederliste – Changements à la liste des membres ...... 22 SEL congress impressions ...... 23–28 SEL congress student competition 2017 ...... 29 Three-minute talks, towards acceleration of scientific communication ...... 30 New Books ...... 31–32 The journal “Oriental Insects” ...... 33 Rienk de Jong's paper "Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepi- doptera: Papilionoidea)" in Zootaxa 4270 (1): 001–063, 2017 ...... 34 Thaumetopoea hellenica sp. n. and Thaumetopoea mediterranea sp. n., new taxa from southern Europe (Notodontidae: Thaumetopoeinae) ...... 35 An interesting aberration ofCampaea margaritaria (Linnaeus, 1761) (Geometridae) .....36 An illustrated checklist of the Austrian Noctuoidea ...... 37 Rhodostrophia vibicaria (Clerck, 1759) (Geometridae: Sterrhinae): recent larval data from the Maritime Alps (province Cuneo, Italy) ...... 38 Search of material of Evergestis nomadalis (Lederer, 1870) ...... 39 Request for Lymantria dispar specimens ...... 40 University of Molise (Italy) is coordinator of an EU project called MAINBIOSYS (2013– 2016), in cooperation with Ethiopian and Ugandan universities ...... 41 Event invitations Invitation to the 10th International Congress of Forum Herbulot in Stuttgart ...... 42 XVI. International Zygaenidae Symposium ...... 43 The Second North American Microlepidopterists’ Meeting in Tucson in 2017 ...... 44 8th “The Biology of Butterflies Conference” 2018 in India – First Announcement ...... 45 VIth Meeting on Neotropical Lepidoptera: Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution and Conser- vation ...... 45 Membership 2017 – Mitgliedschaft 2017 – Cotisation 2017 ...... 46 Local SEL treasurers – Les trésoriers nationaux de la SEL – Die lokalen SEL-Schatzmeister ...... 46 Application for membership – Aufnahmeantrag – Bulletin de souscription ...... 47

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Fig. I – Thaumetopoea hellenica sp. n.: adult (1); male genitalia (2). Thaumetopoea mediterranea sp. n.: adult (3); male genitalia (4). Thaumetopoea pityocampa sp. n.: adult (5); male genitalia (6).

1 SELepidoptera News (ISSN 0721- 8117) is published by the Societas A kind reminder: please pay your membership fee Europaea Lepidopterologica Editor: Dear SEL members, Franziska Bauer Please check whether you have transferred your membership fee for 2017 [email protected] and previous years: [email protected] Ordinary member: 50€ President: Corporate member: 65€ Erik van Nieukerken [email protected] The membership fee is due on January 1 of every year. Please transfer your (yet missing) membership fee to the account below. Alternatively you may Vice President: also pay the amount to your local treasurer (see page 46). Thank you! Thomas Simonsen [email protected]

General Secretary: Rappel pour les paiements Carlos Lopez Vaamonde [email protected] Chers membres de la SEL, Merci de vérifier que vous avez bien payé votre cotisation pour 2017 et les Treasurer: années précédentes. Wolfgang Eckweiler [email protected] Membres ordinaires: 50€ Institutions et entreprises: 65€ Membership Secretary: Hossein Rajaei La cotisation annuelle est due à compter du 1er janvier. Merci d’opérer le [email protected] transfert bancaire de votre cotisation 2017 (et éventuellement celles des an- nées précédentes) au compte bancaire ci-dessous. Vous pouvez aussi payer à Ordinary council members: votre trésorier national, dont la liste est à la page page 46 de SELepi­doptera Joaquín Baixeras Almela News. Merci d’avance! [email protected] Franziska Bauer [email protected] David Lees Zur Erinnerung: bitte zahlen Sie Ihren Mitgliedsbeitrag [email protected] Iva Mihoci Liebes SEL-Mitglied, [email protected] bitte prüfen Sie, ob Sie Ihren Mitgliedsbeitrag für 2017 und die vorangegan- Pasquale Trematerra genen Jahre bezahlt haben. [email protected] Einfache Mitglieder: 50€ Web Committee: Institutionelle Mitglieder: 65€ Richard Mally [email protected] Ihr SEL-Mitgliedsbeitrag wird immer zum 1. Januar eines jeden Jahres fäl- Franziska Bauer lig. Bitte überweisen Sie Ihren (ggf. noch ausstehenden) Betrag auf das un- [email protected] ten stehende Bankkonto. Alternativ können Sie den Betrag auch an Ihren SEL-Schatzmeister vor Ort (siehe Seite 46) bezahlen. Vielen Dank im Vor- Webmaster for SEL website: aus! Richard Mally [email protected] Gregor Kunert [email protected] Bank: Postbank Köln Publication: Nota Lepidopterologica IBAN/NCBI: DE63 3701 0050 0195 6505 07 Editors: Maria Heikkilä BIC/CIB: PBNKDEFF [email protected] David Lees (Kto.-Nr.: 0195650507; BLZ: 370 100 50) [email protected]

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2 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica 2017 SEL General Meeting – Assemblée Générale – MeetingGeneral Generalversammlung by/par/von Carlos Lopez Vaamonde (General Secretary); [email protected]

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General Meeting of Council for the period Septem- particularly the Facebook page are ber 27, 2015 to April 24, 2017. important to advertise SEL and its General Meeting of the Societas activities. Through Franziska Bauer Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) 3. The treasurer’s report was pre- we also have a Twitter account. held at the Medora Auri Hotel, sented by Robert Trusch. The de- Podgora, Croatia, Thursday, April tailed report explained the differ- 7. Council proposals: this item was 27, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. ences in costs between the congress cancelled, since there were no pro- year 2015 and the year 2016 and posals. Chairman: president Erik J. van the importance of timely payment Nieukerken; minutes: General Sec- of fees. 8. Discharge of council, auditors retary Carlos Lopez Vaamonde. and committee chairmen was Apologies were received from vice 4. The auditors’ report was present- moved by David Agassiz. This to- president Thomas Simonsen and ed by Axel Steiner who confirmed gether with acceptance of the ac- ordinary council members Andrea the correctness of the treasurer’s counts, was carried by a vote of 66 Grill, Boyan Zlatkov and Joaquin paperwork. members nem. con. Baixeras. 5. The editor’s report was presented 9. The meeting chose Gerhard Tar- 1. The President welcomed 66 by Jadranka Rota, who mentioned mann as election leader. members and several guests to the that she had been editor for six meeting, for which the invitation years since the congress in Luxem- 10. Elections of council. No post- was published according to the burg and now happy to hand over al votes were received. The meet- statutes in NEWS 58, December to her two successors. The pub- ing agreed to abstain from secret 2016. He asked members to stand lication of Nota is successful and ballots. Following the resignation in memory of those who had died slowly is showing an increase in of Robert Trusch as treasurer and since the last congress: honorary manuscripts. Pensoft has reported Jadranka Rota as editor and the re- member Pamela Gilbert, United that they have as yet no news from tirement of ordinary council mem- Kingdom (deceased December ISI about listing Nota for the Sci- bers Andrea Grill and Boyan Zlat- 8, 2016 at the age of 84, member ence Citation Index, but Scopus kov, the following were proposed since 1988) and the following six is indexing the journal and their by the council and elected: ordinary members: Angel Key- CiteScore is showing a trend to in- – Wolfgang Eckweiler was elected meulen, Belgium (deceased on De- crease. as Treasurer by 64 votes to nil, with cember 16, 2015 at the age of 56, 1 abstention; member since 1987), Ruud Vis, 6. Reports of the Committee Chair- – Maria Heikkilä was elected as Netherlands (deceased on January men. The chairman of the habitat editor by 64 votes to nil with 1 ab- 19, 2016 at the age of 74, member and species protection committee, stention; since 1976), Josef Wimmer, Aus- Gerhard Tarmann, reported on the – David Lees was elected as ordi- tria (deceased on April 7, 2016 at status of the three SEL study areas: nary council member by 61 votes the age of 81, member since 1994), Sesvenna (Italy), Rimetea (Roma- with 1 abstention; Lutz Kobes, Germany (deceased nia) and Galičica (Macedonia). – Franziska Bauer was also elect- on July 21, 2016 at the age of 83, Because the chairman of the ed ordinary council member by 64 member since 1976), Gerald Trem- committee for communication votes to nil with 1 abstention. ewan, United Kingdom (deceased (or website committee), Andrea All elected candidates accepted on October 1, 2016 at the age of 85, Grill, could not attend, the their offices. member since 1994), Karel Spitzer, members Franziska Bauer, editor Czech Republic (deceased on No- for News, and Richard Mally, 11. Election of committee chair- vember 27, 2016 at the age of 64, website manager, reported on their men. No election was needed member since 1978). separate duties. Since News was since chairman Gerhard Tarmann transformed into the colourful continues for another period. The 2. The General Secretary Carlos and varied SELepidoptera News, it committee for communication is Lopez Vaamonde read the report was well received. The website and no longer continued as committee.

No. 59 June 2017 3 12. Robert Trusch was elected an Assemblée Générale 4. Le rapport des auditeurs a été hon. auditor to replace Axel Stein- présenté par Axel Steiner qui a er. L'Assemblée Générale de la Societas confirmé l’exactitude des écritures The president thanked Gerhard Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) et des comptes arrêtés par le Tré- Tarmann for carrying out the task s’est tenue le 27 avril 2017, à 15h30, sorier. of election leader and resumed dans l’hôtel Medora Auri , à Podgo- chairing the meeting. The presi- ra, Croatie. 5. Le rapport de l’Editrice en chef dent thanked the retiring council a été présenté par Jadranka Rota, members Robert Trusch, Jadranka Animateur: le Président Erik J. qui indique qu’elle renonce à cette Rota, Andrea Grill and Boyan Zlat- van Nieukerken; compte-rendu: fonction et remet entre les mains

Assemblée Générale kov for their work. le Secrétaire Général Carlos Lo- de ses deux successeurs la charge pez Vaamonde. Les membres du des éditions de la SEL, après six ans 13. The 21st SEL congress will be Conseil suivants sont excusés pour d’exercice. Elle précise que Nota held in Italy. Pasquale Trematerra leur absence: Thomas Simonsen, Lepidopterologica a été publié avec invited the society to a congress in vice-Président, ainsi qu’Andrea succès et que petit à petit cette re- Campobasso, Molise, from June Grill, Boyan Zlatkov et Joaquin vue attire un nombre croissant 3–8, 2019. He showed a video of Baixeras, membres ordinaires. d’articles. Elle rapporte que Pen- the conference venue and region. soft est toujours sans nouvelle du Campobasso is 3 hours by train 1. Le Président souhaite la bien- référencement de Nota par l’Index from Rome or Naples. Suggestions venue aux 66 membres qui parti- de citation scientifique (ISI). Ce- for later congresses were invited, cipent à cette AG, ainsi qu’il résulte pendant Nota est indexé par Scor- Vladimir Krpach proposes to or- de leur convocation statutaire pu- pus et le critère de citations montre ganize a future conference in Mac- bliée dans les News N° 58 de dé- une tendance à la hausse. edonia. cembre 2016. Il demande à l’assistance d’ob- 6. Rapports des responsables des 14. No members’ proposals had server une minute de silence à la commissions. Gerhard Tarmann, been sent to the secretary. mémoire de ceux des membres responsable du Commission de qui sont décédés depuis le dernier conservation des sites et de pro- 15. General discussion on the fu- congrès de la SEL: Pamela Gil- tection des espèces présente son ture of the SEL. The council asks bert, Grande Bretagne, membre rapport pour les 3 zones d’études members for suggestions and an- d’honneur, décédée à 84 ans le 8 de la SEL : Sesvenna (Italie), Rime- nounces the forming of a commit- décembre 2016, membre de la SEL tea (Roumanie) et Galičica (Macé- tee to discuss possible changes in depuis 1988, Angel Keymeulen, doine). the activities and organization of Belgique, décédé à 56 ans le 16 En l’absence d’Andrea Grill, res- the SEL and the possible need to décembre 2015, SEL depuis 1987; ponsable du commission pour la formalize this in the statutes and Ruud Vis, Pays Bas, décédé à 74 Communication (ou Comité Inter- byelaws and another committee ans le 19 janvier 2016, SEL depuis net), Franziska Bauer, éditrice des to assist the council with finan- 1976; Josef Wimmer, Autriche, dé- News et Richard Mally, webmestre, cial matters, particularly looking cédé à 81 ans le 7 avril 2016, SEL présentent le rapport de leur acti- into sponsorships and ways to get depuis 1994 ; Lutz Kobes, Alle- vité respective. La restructuration more income from new mem- magne, décédé à 83 ans le 21 juillet des News, maintenant en ligne et bers and donations. Suggestions 2016, SEL depuis 1976; W. Gerald en couleurs, sous le nom de SE- that were discussed include mak- Tremewan, Grande Bretagne, dé- Lepidoptera News a suscité des ing membership registration and cédé à 85 ans le 1er octobre 2016, retours positifs. Le site Internet et payment easier, e.g. through the SEL depuis 1994 et Karel Spitzer, particulièrement la page Facebook website; whether News should be République Tchèque, décédé à 64 ont acquis de l’importance pour send again as printed, and wheth- ans le 27 novembre 2016, SEL de- transmettre l’information émanant er members could choose not to puis 1978. de la SEL. Enfin grâce à Franziska receive a printed version of Nota Bauer, la SEL bénéficie d’une visi- Lepidopterologica and instead get 2. Le Secrétaire Général lit le rap- bilité sur Twitter. PDF only. This is not yet possible, port d’activité du Conseil pour la but will be considered in the fu- période du 27 septembre 2015 au 7. Proposition du Conseil. En l’ab- ture. Also the council would like to 24 avril 2017. sence de proposition, ce point est become more flexible in composi- annulé. tion of council. 3. Le Trésorier en titre, Robert Trusch, présente le rapport finan- 8. L’approbation des rapports du 16. Any other business. Bernard cier pour la période. Il explicite les Conseil, des auditeurs et des res- Landry announces a conference différences de coûts entre 2015 et ponsables des commissions est pla- on Neotropical Lepidoptera and 2016 et insiste sur l’importance du cée sous la conduite de David Agas- membership secretary Hossein Ra- règlement des cotisations dans les siz. Ces différentes approbations, jaei asks members to timely report délais prévus. ainsi que la décharge du Trésorier changes in e-mail addresses. ■ pour l’exactitude des comptes, ont

4 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica Figure 1. Audience in the general meeting (Photo: Robert Trusch)

été votées par 66 voix pour, sans pour, zéro contre et 1 abstention. Rome ou Naples. Vladimir Krpach voix contre, ni abstention. Tous les membres élus ont décla- propose d’organiser un congrès ul- ré accepter leur nouvelle fonction. térieur de la SEL en République de 9. L’Assemblée Générale choisit Macédoine (ARYM). Gerhard Tarmann pour conduire 11. Election des responsables des les élections statutaires. commissions. Comme Gerhard 14. Aucune proposition émanant Tarmann a accepté de poursuivre des membres n’a été adressée au 10. Election des membres du pour un nouveau mandat, aucune Secrétaire Général. Conseil. élection n’est requise. Le commis- Aucun vote par correspondance sion pour la communication est 15. Discussion générale sur l’ave- n’a été reçu dans les temps. L’AG supprimé. nir de la SEL. Le Conseil demande décide de ne pas recourir au vote aux membres des suggestions ou à bulletins secrets. En raison de la 12. Robert Trusch a été élu comme des projets afin de créer un comi- démission de Robert Trusch du auditeur honoraire en remplace- té chargé de réfléchir sur l’organi- poste de Trésorier et de Jadranka ment d’Axel Steiner. sation de la SEL, l’évolution de ses Rota de celui de Directeur des Le président remercie Gerhard activités et la nécessité éventuelle publications ainsi que de la fin du Tarmann pour la conduite des de modifier les statuts et le règle- mandat des membres ordinaires élections et reprend la main pour ment intérieur. Un autre comité Andrea Grill et Boyan Zlatkov, les la poursuite de l’AG. Il remercie pourrait être institué pour assister membres proposé par le Conseils Robert Trusch, Jadranka Rota, le Conseil dans le domaine finan- ont été élus, soit: Andrea Grill et Boyan Zlatkov, cier, particulièrement en matière – Wolfgang Eckweiler élu comme tous membres qui cessent leur ac- de sponsoring, d’accroissement du trésorier, par 64 voix pour, zéro tivité au Conseil, pour le travail ac- nombre de membres et d’appels à contre et 1 abstention; compli. dons. Des propositions visant à fa- – Maria Heikkilä élue comme Di- ciliter le paiement en ligne des co- recteur des publications, par 64 13. Le 21ème Congrès de la SEL se tisations, notamment via le site In- voix pour, zéro contre et 1 absten- tiendra en Italie. Pasquale Trema- ternet ont été enregistrées. D’autres tion; terra invite les membres au Congrès membres souhaitent que les News – David Lees élu comme membre qui se tiendra à Campobasso, Mo- soient de nouveau sous forme im- ordinaire par 61 voix pour, zéro lise du 3 au 8 juin 2019. Il présente primée. A l’inverse des membres contre et 1 abstention; un film vidéo du lieu du Congrès et demandent le choix de recevoir – Franziska Bauer élue comme de la région. Il précise que Campo- Nota sous forme de fichier .pdf à la membre ordinaire par 64 voix basso est à 3 heures de train depuis place de la version imprimée. Cette

No. 59 June 2017 5 Generalversammlung

Figure 2. Treasurer Robert Trusch, president Erik van Nieukerken and general secretary Carlos Lopez Vaamonde during the general meeting (Photo: Franziska Bauer)

solution n’est pas actuellement en- Thomas Simonsen und dieJahren, Mitglied seit 1976), Gerald visageable, mais elle est prise en Einfachen Vorstandsmitglieder Tremewan, Vereinigtes Königreich compte pour le futur. Le Conseil Andrea Grill, Boyan Zlatkov und (verstorben am 1. Oktober 2016 souhaite également devenir moins Joaquin Baixeras. im Alter von 85 Jahren, Mitglied rigide dans sa composition. seit 1994), Karel Spitzer, Tschechi- 1. Der Präsident hieß 66 Mitglieder en (verstorben am 27. November 16. Questions diverses: Bernard und einige Gäste zur Versamm- 2016 im Alter von 64 Jahren, Mit- Landry annonce une conférence lung willkommen, für die in den glied seit 1978). sur les Lépidoptères néotropicaux; News 58 im Dezember 2016 ent- Hossein Rajaei, secrétaire aux sprechend der Satzung eingeladen 2. Der Generalsekretär Carlos membres, demande de lui envoyer wurde. Er bat die Teilnehmer, sich Lopez Vaamonde verlas den Be- vos changement d’adresse électro- zum Gedenken an die seit dem richt des Vorstandes für die Perio- nique dès que vous en changez. letzten Kongress verstorbenen Mit- de vom 27. September 2015 bis 24. glieder zu erheben: Ehrenmitglied April 2017. (Traduit par Eric Drouet) Pamela Gilbert, Vereinigtes König- ■ reich (verstorben am 8. Dezember 3. Der Kassenbericht wurde von 2016 im Alter von 84 Jahren, Mit- Robert Trusch vorgetragen. In dem Generalversammlung glied seit 1988) und die folgenden detaillierten Bericht wurden die sechs Einfachen Mitglieder: Angel Unterschiede zwischen den Kosten Generalversammlung der Societas Keymeulen, Belgien (verstorben im Kongressjahr 2015 und dem Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) am 16. Dezember 2015 im Alter Jahr 2016 erklärt und die Wichtig- im Medora Auri Hotel, Podgora von 56 Jahren, Mitglied seit 1987), keit der pünktlichen Beitragszah- (Kroatien), am Donnerstag den 27. Ruud Vis, Niederlande (verstorben lung unterstrichen. April 2017 um 15.30 Uhr. am 19. Januar 2016 im Alter von 74 Jahren, Mitglied seit 1976), Josef 4. Der Bericht des Rechnungsprü- Vorsitzender: Präsident Erik J. Wimmer, Österreich (verstorben fers wurde von Axel Steiner prä- Nieukerken; Sitzungsprotokoll: am 7. April 2016 im Alter von 81 sentiert, der die Richtigkeit der Ar- Generalsekretär Carlos Lopez Jahren, Mitglied seit 1994), Lutz beit des Schatzmeisters bestätigte. Vaamonde. Ihre Abwesenheit Kobes, Deutschland (verstorben haben entschuldigt: Vizepräsident am 21. Juli 2016 im Alter von 83 5. Der Bericht der Schriftleiterin

6 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica wurde von Jadranka Rota vorge- gen. Die Versammlung war damit se vorzubringen. Vladmir Krpach tragen. Sie sagte, dass sie seit dem einverstanden, von geheimer Wahl schlug vor, einen zukünftigen Kon- Kongress in Luxemburg vor sechs abzusehen. Nach dem Rücktritt gress in Mazedonien zu organisie- Jahren die Redaktion der Nota von Robert Trusch als Schatzmeis- ren. inne hätte und sich freute, diese ter und Jadranka Rota als Schrift- Arbeit nun an ihre beiden Nachfol- leiterin sowie dem Ausscheiden 14. Beim Generalsekretär sind ger zu übergeben. Die Veröffentli- der Einfachen Vorstandsmitglieder keine Vorschläge von Mitgliedern chung von Nota ist erfolgreich und Andrea Grill und Boyan Zlatkov, eingegangen. zeigt langsam einen Anstieg in der wurden die folgenden Personen Zahl eingereichter Manuskripte. vom Vorstand vorgeschlagen und 15. Allgemeine Diskussion über Pensoft hat berichtet, dass bisher gewählt: die Zukunft der SEL. Der Vorstand von ISI noch keine Neuigkeiten – Wolfgang Eckweiler wurde mit hat Mitglieder zu Vorschlägen be- zur Listung von Nota im Scien- 64 Stimmen und ohne Gegen- fragt und kündigt an, ein Komitee ce Citation-Index vorliegen, aber stimme bei einer Enthaltung zum zu gründen, das mögliche Ver- Scopus das Journal registriert hat Schatzmeister gewählt; änderungen in der Aktivität der und deren CiteScore einen steigen- – Maria Heikkilä wurde mit 64 SEL und ihrer Organisation dis- den Trend zeigt. Stimmen und ohne Gegenstimme kutiert. Diese Änderungen müss- bei einer Enthaltung zur Nota-Re- ten möglicherweise in der Satzung 6. Bericht des Komiteeleiters. Der dakteurin gewählt; und der Geschäftsordnung formal Leiter des Habitat- und Arten- – David Lees wurde mit 61 Stim- festgehalten werden. Dazu müsste schutz-Komitees, Gerhard Tar- men und ohne Gegenstimme bei eventuell ein weiteres Komitee ge- mann, berichtet über den Status einer Enthaltung zum Einfachen gründet werden, das den Vorstand der drei SEL-Forschungsareale: Vorstandsmitglied gewählt; in finanziellen Angelegenheiten, Sesvenna (Italien), Rimetea (Ru- – Franziska Bauer wurde mit 64 besonders was Sponsorenschaften mänien) und Galičica (Mazedoni- Stimmen und ohne Gegenstimme und Wege anbelangt, um mehr en). bei einer Enthaltung ebenfalls zum Bezüge und Spenden von Mitglie- Da die Leiterin des Kommu- Einfachen Vorstandsmitglied ge- dern zu bekommen, unterstützt. nikationskomitees (oder Websei- wählt. Vorschläge, die diskutiert wurden, ten-Komitees), Andrea Grill, an Alle gewählten Kandidaten ha- betreffen die Vereinfachung des der Versammlung nicht teilneh- ben ihr Amt angenommen. Beitritts zur SEL sowie die Bei- men konnte, berichteten Franziska tragszahlung, z.B. über die Web- Bauer, Redakteurin der News, und 11. Wahl des Komiteevorsitzen- seite. Weiterhin wurde diskutiert, Richard Mally, Webseiten-Mana- den. Es war keine Wahl notwen- ob die News wieder in gedruckter ger, über ihre Aufgabenbereiche. dig, da der Vorsitzende Gerhard Form verschickt werden sollten Nachdem die News in die bunte Tarmann sein Amt für eine weitere und ob Mitglieder in der Lage sein und abwechslungsreiche SELepi- Periode fortsetzt. Das Komitee für sollten, zu wählen, ob sie Nota doptera News umgewandelt wur- Kommunikation wird nicht weiter Lepidopterologica als Druck oder den, wurden sie positiv aufgenom- als Komitee fortgesetzt. nur als PDF erhalten möchten. men. Die Webseite und besonders Letzteres in im Moment noch nicht die Facebook-Seite sind wichtig, 12. Robert Trusch wurde als Eh- möglich, wird aber in der Zukunft um für die SEL und ihre Aktivi- ren-Rechnungsprüfer gewählt um berücksichtigt werden. Des Weite- täten zu werben. Durch Franziska Axel Steiner zu ersetzen. ren möchte der Vorstand in Bezug Bauer haben wir auch einen Twit- Der Präsident dankte Gerhard auf seine Mitgliederzusammenset- ter-Account. Tarmann für seine Rolle als Wahl- zung flexibler werden. leiter und führte den Vorsitz der 7. Vorschläge des Vorstandes: Die- Versammlung fort. Der Präsident 16. Sonstige Belange: Bernard ser Punkt wurde gestrichen, da dankte den scheidenden Vor- Landry hat eine Konferenz zu keine Vorschläge vorlagen. standsmitgliedern Robert Trusch, Neotropischen Lepidoptera ange- Jadranka Rota, Andrea Grill und kündigt und Mitgliedersekretär 8. Die Entlastung des Vorstandes, Boyan Zlatkov für ihre Arbeit. Hossein Rajaei hat die Mitglieder der Rechnungsprüfer und des Ko- darauf hingewiesen, Änderungen miteevorsitzenden wird von David 13. Der 21. SEL-Kongress wird in in ihren E-Mail-Adressen rechtzei- Agassiz geleitet. Die Entlastungen Italien stattfinden. Pasquale Tre- tig mitzuteilen. und die Annahme des Budgets materra hat die Gesellschaft zu wurden von 66 Mitgliedern ohne einem Kongress in Campobasso, (Übersetzt von Franziska Bauer) Gegenstimmen genehmigt. Molise, vom 3.–8. Juni 2019 einge- ■ laden. Er zeigte ein Video des Ver- 9. Die Versammlung hat Gerhard anstaltungsortes und der Region. Tarmann zum Wahlleiter gewählt. Campobasso ist per Zug drei Stun- den von Rom und Neapel entfernt. 10. Wahl des Vorstandes. Es sind Es wurde dazu eingeladen, weitere keine Briefwahlstimmen eingegan- Vorschläge für spätere Kongres-

No. 59 June 2017 7 New Council members 2017

Wolfgang Eckweiler, Treasurer After finishing my master studies I made my PhD in neuroscience about tactile hairs of hunting spiders in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Since 1987 I manage an income tax association with about 1,000 members. Ad- ditionally, I have been active as a lepidopterologist, focusing my interest on Palearctic lycaenids and nymphalids. I undertook numerous research trips in Asia, especially to Turkey, Iran, and China and published some results. Last year’s volume 18 of the Guide to the butterflies of the Palearctic Re- gion appeared dealing with the species-rich subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lycae- nidae, Polyommatus). I am member of the Editorial Board of the Nachricht- en des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (NEVA), an entomological journal published in Frankfurt am Main. As a long-time SEL member I look forward to contributing my tax competences to the treasurer’s function.

Maria Heikkilä, Nota editor I received my PhD in 2014 (Finnish Museum of Natural History LUO- MUS, University of Helsinki). In my thesis I explored the evolutionary relationships among ditrysian superfamilies by combining morpholog- ical and molecular data. I am currently coordinating an international effort to re-examine all known fossil Lepidoptera to obtain a better pic- ture of the age and historical biogeography of the different lineages. The project was started as part of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I am now back at the Finnish Museum of Natural History as a postdoctoral researcher and the next project I will be involved in focuses on the evolutionary history of Tineoidea.

David Lees, Ordinary Council member, Nota Editor In 2016 I started working in a permanent capacity as Microlepidoptera Cura- tor at the Natural History Museum, London, but have been associated with the NHMUK for a long time, as a PhD student and Postdoc and since 2001 as Scientific Associate. In 2013-2016 I was a postdoc in Paul Brakefield’s lab in Cambridge working on mycalesine butterflies. I have a longterm research interest in Madagascar as a Lepidoptera faunal region, and it is the country where I have done the most fieldwork. Aside from butterflies I am particu- larly interested in several families of primitive moths from Micropterigidae to the lower ditrysian leafminers. My research interests are focused on Lep- idopteran (molecular) systematics and taxonomy, their evolution, diversifi- cation, and biogeography, and on invasive species. I really look forward to serving on the council of such a vibrant society as SEL as well as coediting Nota Lepidopterologica.

Franziska Bauer, Ordinary Council member, News Editor I am a biologist by training and have been focusing my interest on Lepidoptera for more than 10 years now. I have worked at the Senckenberg Natural History Collec- tions Dresden on several projects dealing with systematics of pyraloids and aspects of their protection.I have specialized in photography of Lepidoptera and portraying their life histories for educational purposes. Besides this I like to show the beauty of these animals in artworks and commission works. Being the successor of Willy De Prins, I have been working as the SEL News Editor now for almost two years. I enjoy getting in touch with so many different SEL members in this job and I am looking forward to continuing this work.

8 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica 2017 SEL Council Report – Rapport du Conceil – Report Council Bericht des Vorstandes by/par/von Carlos Lopez Vaamonde; [email protected]

pp 9–10 pp 10–11 pp 11–13

Council Report The post-congress tour visited the 2017, in Podgora, Croatia. The ex- Elbe Sandstone Mountains dur- ecutive council (Robert Trusch, for the period from September 27, ing one day. The conference was Erik van Nieukerken and Carlos 2015 to April 24, 2017 followed by a meeting of the Ger- Lopez Vaamonde) also met once man Microlepidoptera working in Karlsruhe, Germany, on March During the last two years, we have group, that allowed some contact 22, 2016, in order to arrange the been looking closely at SEL financ- between attendants of both groups, formal registration of council at es. The rise in membership fees and even some SEL delegates not the “Vereinsregister”, an obligation from 2016 to cover the raised costs speaking German, attended this according to German Law to keep of having a fully open access jour- German-speaking workshop. the society legally registered. Un- nal has thankfully been accepted Matthias Nuss and his team were fortunately, the SEL had a backlog during the general meeting on the thanked for a remarkably well-or- in this registration, but after some September 30, 2015 in Radebeul by ganized conference. correspondence with the Register- the majority of members. Howev- gericht Mannheim, the SEL is now er, we still need to reduce debt by Council formally registered again with its reducing our operating costs and The general meeting was held on current executive council. also by increasing the number of September 30, 2015 in Radebeul members, donations, and looking and was reported in News 56. Af- Treasury for sponsorships. ter president Gerhard Tarmann, Since the council last met in Aar- and membership secretary Willy hus on the May 21, 2016 the eco- The XIXth Congress of Lepidop- de Prins stepped down after 13 and nomic situation of the SEL has terology, September 27 to Octo- 32 years of service, respectively, a substantially improved. Most of ber 2, 2015 in Radebeul, Germa- new council was elected as follows: the expenses (34% of budget) goes ny Erik van Nieukerken as president, to cover the publication of Nota by The congress was organised by Dr Thomas Simonsen as vice presi- Pensoft. To balance our incoming Matthias Nuss and his colleagues dent, Carlos Lopez Vaamonde as fees and publication costs of Nota from the Senckenberg Museum for general secretary, Hossein Rajaei we must reduce expenses. We have Zoology in Dresden (Manuela Bar- as membership secretary and as already reduced the number of tel, Franziska Bauer, Frauke Niels- new ordinary council members: printed volumes of Nota to one per en, Christian Schmidt, Francesca Joaquín Baixeras Almela, Iva Mi- year. One other way to improve Vegliante, and Birgit Walker), and hoci and Pasquale Trematerra. Rolf our financial situation would be to attracted 160 participants from Mörtter was elected an honorary seek donations more actively. Fi- 27 countries with 80 oral pres- auditor to replace Bernd Traub. nally, we would also like to empha- entations and 26 posters. The first size the importance of paying the day started with a highly scientif- Council meetings membership fees early in the year. ic, but also emotional symposium A short council meeting took We are considering the possibili- devoted to our former president place immediately after the gen- ty of charging a penalty to people and honorary member Niels Ped- eral meeting in Radebeul on Sep- not paying in time. Wolfgang Eck- er Kristensen who died in 2014. tember 30, 2015 and a full-day weiler has developed a data base This symposium was organized by meeting in Aarhus, Denmark, in FileMaker that links member council members and former stu- kindly hosted by Thomas Simon- administration and accounting so dents of NP Kristensen, Jadranka sen, took place on May 21, 2016. we can keep track easily of who has Rota and Thomas Simonsen. The A summary of this council meet- not paid his membership. conference included a student con- ing was published in News 57. The test organized by Joaquin Baixeras, council had extensive contact via Membership Maria Heikkilä and Matthias Nuss. Slack since then about several is- We were saddened to learn of the 23 PhD students participated with sues concerning News and Nota death of seven members, including 16 oral presentations and seven publication and conference organ- honorary member Pamela Gilbert posters. ization. Finally, a council meeting from London. During the general was held on Monday, April 24, meeting in 2015, three members

No. 59 June 2017 9 were awarded honorary member- dience. So it is important to keep ters. La première journée a débuté ship: Willy de Prins, former mem- posting activities related to the SEL par une présentation de haut ni- bership secretary; Rienk de Jong, such as the publication of News veau scientifique, mais aussi char- founding father and former presi- and Nota and covering our confer- gée d'émotion, à la mémoire de dent; and Peder Skou, well-known ences in real time. notre ancien président et membre publisher of Lepidoptera books d'honneur, Niels Peder Kristensen, and active researcher of Geometri- SEL study areas disparu en 2014. Cet hommage a dae. Surveys of Lepidoptera have been été organisé par les membres du The total membership stands carried out at the Galičica Park with Conseil et deux anciens étudiants currently (April 13, 2017) at 582 more than 600 species recorded. In de Niels, Jadranka Rota et Thomas th

Rapport du Conseil du Rapport members (including 3 corporate addition, the XV International Simonsen. members), a decrease of 22 mem- Symposium on Zygaenidae took Durant le Congrès un concours bers compared to 2015 (604 mem- place in Mals within the SEL study de projet d’étudiants a été organisé bers). In this period 21 members area of Sesvenna from September par Joaquin Baixeras, Maria Heik- needed to be deleted from the list 11–18, 2016. The meeting was or- kilä et Matthias Nuss. Il a réuni 23 because of many years of arrears, ganized by the Museum of Nature étudiants qui ont présenté leurs tra- 14 members resigned and seven South Tyrol (Bozen/Bolzano, It- vaux oralement (16) ou à l'aide de died. Against this, 17 new mem- aly) and the Tiroler Landesmu- posters (7). La sortie post-Congrès bers were welcomed. seen, Ferdinandeum (Innsbruck, a permis de découvrir pendant une Austria), with Gerhard Tarmann journée les montagnes de sable du Publications as leading organiser. 50 scientists bord de l'Elbe. Nota Lepidopterologica has now from 16 nations participated in Le Congrès a été suivi d'une ren- been published online by Pensoft this important event. The ban of contre des microlépidoptéristes de for the last three years. Two issues the use of pesticides in agriculture langue allemande, qui a permis de are published online per year. To re- in Mals is spreading to other villag- nombreux contacts additionnels duce publication costs both issues es in the area. entre les participants des deux évé- are now printed together as a single ■ nements et quelques membres non volume per year. Volume 39 con- germanisants de la SEL ont partici- tained 16 articles and 190 printed Rapport d'activité du pés aux ateliers des microlépidop- pages. The council regrets that edi- conseil de la SEL téristes. tor Jadranka Rota is stepping down pour la période du 27 septembre Matthias Nuss et son équipe ont as editor-in-chief of Nota, after she 2015 au 24 avril 2017 été chaleureusement remerciés successfully transformed this jour- pour la qualité de l'organisation du nal from its former print-only into Au cours des deux dernières années Congrès. the current combination of open nous nous sommes focalisés sur les access and print. finances de la SEL. L'augmentation Le Conseil News 56 was published online du niveau des cotisations depuis L'Assemblée Générale s'est tenue on December 23, 2015, News 57 2016 destiné à couvrir les coûts dé- le 30 septembre 2015 à Radebeul was published online in June 2016 coulant de l'option pour des publi- et le compte-rendu en a été publié and News 58 in December 2016. cations en accès totalement libre, a dans les News N° 56. Le Président Franziska Bauer acted as new edi- été bien accueillie par une majorité Gerhard Tarmann et le Secrétaire tor of this online only journal, now des membres réunis lors de l'As- aux membres ont cessé leurs named SELepidoptera News, and semblée Générale du 30 septembre fonctions après respectivement includes more content than it did 2015 à Radebeul. Cependant nous 13 années et 32 années au service previously. Franziska is to be con- devons continuer à veiller à réduire du Conseil. Un nouveau Conseil gratulated for the excellent quality les coûts opérationnels de l'asso- a été élu: Erik van Nieukerken: of News. ciation et à accroitre le nombre de Président, Thomas Simonsen: membres, de donateurs et de spon- Vice-président, Carlos Lopez SEL website sors. Vaamonde: Secrétaire général, Richard Mally is the website man- Hossein Rajaei: Secrétaire aux ager updating and improving the Le XIXème Congrès de la SEL à membres, ainsi que les membres SEL website with new content. Radebeul, Allemagne, du 27 sep- ordinaires suivants: Joaquín Richard has had full access to the tembre au 2 octobre 2015 Baixeras Almela, Iva Mihoci and website for the last year. We would Ce Congrès, organisé par Matthias Pasquale Trematerra. Rolf Mörtter like to simplify the process for Nuss et ses équipes du Muséum de a été élu comme auditeur honoraire members to join and pay dues, us- Zoologie Senckenberg, à Dresde pour remplacer Bernd Traub. ing the website. Online payment (Manuela Bartel, Franziska Bauer, will provide a much easier means Frauke Nielsen, Christian Schmidt, Réunions du Conseil to join and hopefully increase Francesca Vegliante, and Birgit Une rapide réunion du nouveau membership. SEL facebook page Walker) a réuni 160 participants Conseil a eu lieu juste après l'As- has 790 followers and is by far the venant de 27 pays et donné lieu à semblée Générale, le 30 septembre best way of reaching a wide au- 80 présentations orales et 26 pos- 2015 à Radebeul. Une réunion sur

10 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica une journée complète s'est tenue le d'honneur: Willy de Prins, ancien en temps réel, toute information

21 mai 2016 à Aarus, Danemark, à Secrétaire aux membres, Rienk de concernant la SEL, notamment les Vorstandsbericht l'invitation de Thomas Simonsen. Jong, membre fondateur et ancien News, Nota et les conférences don- Un résumé de cette réunion a été Président de la SEL et Peder Skou, nées durant les Congrès. publié dans les News N°57. Plu- éditeur bien connu de livres sur les sieurs contacts entre les membres, papillons et chercheur très actif sur Zones d'études de la SEL via Slack, ont permis de régler des les Geometridae. Un inventaire du parc de Galičica points concernant les News, Nota Au 13 avril 2017, le nombre de a été conduit avec 600 espèces ré- Lepidopterologica et l'organisation membres s'élevait à 582 (dont 3 ins- pertoriées. du Congrès. Enfin une réunion du titutionnels) , soit une baisse de 22 Le XVème Symposium interna- Conseil a eu lieu le 24 avril 2017 par rapport à 2015 (604 membres). tional sur les Zygaenidae a eu lieu à Podgora, Croatie. Le bureau du Au cours de cette période, 21 per- à Mals, à côté de l’aire d'étude de la Conseil (Robert Trusch, Erik van sonnes ont été rayées de la liste SEL de Sesvenna du 11 au 18 sep- Nieukerken and Carlos Lopez Vaa- pour non-paiement, 14 ont démis- tembre 2016. La rencontre a été or- monde) s'est également réuni une sionné et 7 membres sont décédés. ganisée conjointement par le mu- fois le 22 mars 2016 à Karlsruhe, Dans le même temps nous avons séum de la nature du Tyrol du sud Allemagne, pour confirmer l'enre- accueilli 17 nouveaux membres. (Bozen/Bolzano, Italie) et le Tiro- gistrement de notre association au- ler Landesmuseen, Ferdinandeum près du “Vereinsregister”, confor- Publications (Innsbruck, Autriche) et Gerhard mément aux dispositions légales Nota est maintenant publié en Tarmann en a assuré la présidence allemandes. Après un échec partiel ligne par Pensoft, depuis 3 ans, à exécutive. 50 scientifiques de 16 de cette démarche, des correspon- raison de 2 fascicules par an. Afin pays ont participé à cette impor- dances ultérieures avec le "Regis- de réduire les coûts ces deux fasci- tante manifestation. L'interdiction tergericht" de Mannheim ont per- cules sont réunis en un volume lors de l'usage agricole des pesticides mis de régulariser la situation et de la publication papier. Le volume par la municipalité de Mals com- l'enregistrement officiel du nouvel 39 est constitué de 16 articles pour mence à se diffuser dans les com- exécutif du Conseil. 190 pages. Le Conseil regrette que munes limitrophes. l'éditrice, Jadranka Rota cesse d'as- Trésorerie surer la fonction d'éditrice en chef, (Traduit par Eric Drouet) Depuis la dernière réunion du après avoir conduit avec succès la ■ Conseil à Aarus le 21 mai 2016, la mutation de la publication papier à situation financière de la SEL s'est la formule mixte actuelle (publica- Bericht des Vorstandes bien améliorée. La grosse part des tion en ligne et publication papier). dépenses (34% du budget) sert à Les News N° 56 ont été publiées für den Zeitraum vom 27. Septem- la publication de Nota par Pensoft. en ligne le 23 décembre 2015, le N° ber 2015 bis 24. April 2017 Pour équilibrer le nouveau mon- 57, en juin 2016 et le N° 58 en dé- tant de la cotisation et les coûts de cembre 2016. Franziska Bauer as- In den vergangenen zwei Jahren publication de Nota, nous devons sure la fonction d'éditrice de cette haben wir die Finanzen der SEL réduire les frais. Nous sommes publication qui est entièrement genau unter die Lupe genommen. passés à une seule édition papier en ligne, sous le nouveau nom de Die Erhöhung des Mitgliedsbei- annuelle pour Nota. Une autre SELepidoptera News et propose trags seit 2016 um die Kosten für voie d'amélioration de la situation beaucoup plus de contenu qu'au- ein open access-Journal zu stem- financière est d'encourager plus paravant. Franziska Bauer est re- men, wurde glücklicherweise wäh- activement les appels aux dons. merciée pour l'excellente qualité rend der SEL-Generalversamm- Nous devons également inciter les des News. lung am 30. September 2015 in membres à payer leurs cotisations Radebeul von der Mehrheit der plus tôt dans l'année. Nous envi- Site Internet de la SEL Mitglieder akzeptiert. Jedoch müs- sageons de taxer les retardataires. Richard Mally est le webmestre sen wir weiterhin unsere Schul- Wolfgang Eckweiler a développé, du site et en assure les évolutions den reduzieren, indem wir unsere sur FileMaker, une base de don- techniques et la mise à jour, avec laufenden Kosten verringern und nées qui fait le lien entre le fichier de nouveaux contenus depuis l'an gleichzeitig auch mehr Mitglieder, des membres et celui des paie- passé. Nous souhaitons simplifier Zuwendungen und Spenden ge- ments, pour tracer ceux qui n'ont le processus d'adhésion et de paie- winnen. pas payé leur cotisation. ment des cotisations en utilisant le site internet. Le paiement en Der XIX. Lepidopterologie-Kon- Les Membres ligne devrait assurer la fluidité des gress vom 27. September bis Nous déplorons le décès de sept échanges et permettre d'accroitre 2. Oktober 2015 in Radebeul, de nos membres, dont celui de le nombre de membres. La page Deutschland notre membre d'honneur Pamela facebook de la SEL compte 790 Der Kongress wurde von Dr. Mat- Gilbert de Londres. Lors de l'As- abonnés et constitue un excellent thias Nuss und seinen Kollegen des semblée Générale de 2015, trois moyen d'élargir l'audience de la Senckenberg Museums für Tier- membres ont été élus membre SEL. Il est important de publier kunde in Dresden (Manuela Bar-

No. 59 June 2017 11 tel, Franziska Bauer, Frauke Niel- Vorstandstreffen wickelt, die die Mitgliederverwal- sen, Christian Schmidt, Francesca Ein kurzes Vorstandstreffen fand tung mit der Buchhaltung verbin- Vegliante und Birgit Walker) orga- direkt nach der Generalversamm- det, sodass leicht überprüft werden nisiert, und lockte 160 Teilnehmer lung in Radebeul am 30. Septem- kann, wer seinen Mitgliedsbeitrag aus 27 Ländern an, die insgesamt ber 2015 statt. Ein ganztägiges noch nicht eingezahlt hat. 80 Vorträge und 26 Poster präsen- Treffen folgte am 21. Mai 2016 in tierten. Der erste Tag begann mit Aarhus (Dänemark) und wurde Mitgliederschaft einem höchst wissenschaftlichen, freundlicherweise von Thomas Si- Wir sind betroffen vom Tod von sie- jedoch auch emotionalen Sympo- monsen organisiert. Ein Bericht ben Mitgliedern, unter denen sich sium zum Gedenken an unseren zu diesem Treffen wurde in News das Ehrenmitglied Pamela Gilbert früheren Präsidenten und unser 57 veröffentlicht. Seitdem steht aus London befindet. Während der Ehrenmitglied Niels Peder Kris- der Vorstand über Slack in regem Generalversammlung 2015 wurde tensen, der 2014 verstorben ist. Austausch über Dinge wie die drei Mitgliedern die Ehrenmit- Das Symposium wurde von Vor- News- oder Nota-Veröffentlichung gliedschaft überreicht: Willy de standsmitgliedern und früheren sowie Kongressorganisation. Das Prins, früherer Mitgliedersekretär; Studenten von N. P. Kristensen, letzte Treffen des Vorstands fand Rienk de Jong, Gründungsvater Jadranka Rota und Thomas Si- am Montag, den 24. April 2017 in und früherer Präsident; und Peder monsen, organisiert. Der Kongress Podgora (Kroatien) statt. Die Ex- Skou, bekannter Verleger von Bü- beinhaltete einen Studentenwett- ekutivmitglieder des Vorstandes chern über Lepidoptera und akti- bewerb, der von Joaquin Baixeras, (Robert Trusch, Erik van Nieuker- ver Geometriden-Forscher. Maria Heikkilä und Matthias Nuss ken und Carlos Lopez Vaamon- Die komplette Mitgliederschaft durchgeführt wurde. An diesem de) trafen sich zuvor am 22. März umfasst momentan (13. April Wettbewerb nahmen 23 PhD-Stu- 2016 in Karlsruhe (Deutschland), 2017) 582 Mitglieder (inkl. drei in- denten mit insgesamt 16 Vorträgen um die formale Registrierung des stitutionelle Mitglieder), was eine und sieben Posterpräsentationen Vorstands beim Vereinsregister zu Verringerung im 22 Mitglieder im teil. regeln. Diese ist nach Deutschem Vergleich zu 2015 (damals 604 Mit- Die Kongress-Exkursion führte Gesetz Pflicht, um die Gesellschaft glieder) bedeutet. In dieser Periode für einen Tag ins Elbsandsteinge- rechtlich registriert zu behalten. mussten 21 Mitglieder aufgrund birge. Im Anschluss an den Kon- Leider hatte die SEL bei dieser Re- mehrjähriger Zahlungsrückstände gress fand das Jahrestreffen der gistrierung Nachholbedarf. Nach aus der Liste gelöscht werden. 14 deutschsprachigen Kleinschmet- einiger Korrespondenz mit dem Mitglieder sind ausgetreten, sie- terlingsspezialisten statt, das den Registergericht Mannheim konnte ben sind verstorben. Im Gegensatz Kontakt zwischen beiden Teil- die SEL jedoch mit ihrem jetzigen dazu konnten wir 17 neue Mitglie- nehmergruppen ermöglichte. So- Exekutivvorstand wieder formal der begrüßen. gar einige nicht-deutschsprachige registriert werden. SEL-Teilnehmer nahmen an die- Publikationen sem Treffen teil. Vermögensverwaltung Nota Lepidopterologica wird nun Matthias Nuss und seinem Team Seit dem letzten Vorstandstreffen seit drei Jahren online über Pensoft gilt Dank für diesen beachtlich gut in Aarhus am 21. Mai 2016 hat sich publiziert. Pro Jahr werden zwei organisierten Kongress. die finanzielle Situation der SEL Hefte online veröffentlicht. Um deutlich verbessert. Die meisten Publikationskosten zu reduzieren, Vorstand Ausgaben (34% des Budgets) wer- werden beide Hefte nun zusam- Die Generalversammlung fand am den für die Publikation von Nota men als ein einziger Band pro Jahr 30. September 2015 in Radebeul bei Pensoft benötigt. Um unsere gedruckt. Band 39 beinhaltete 16 statt. Über sie wurde in News 56 eingenommenen Mitgliedsbeiträ- Artikel auf 190 Druckseiten. Der berichtet. Nachdem Präsident Ger- ge und Nota-Publikationskosten Vorstand bedauert, dass Jadranka hard Tarmann und Mitgliederse- auszugleichen, müssen wir unsere Rota als Chefredakteurin der Nota kretär Willy de Prins nach 13 bzw. Ausgaben verringern. Wir haben zurücktritt, nachdem sie das Jour- 32 Jahren von ihren Ämtern zu- bisher schon die Anzahl gedruck- nal erfolgreich von einer ursprüng- rückgetreten sind, wurde ein neuer ter Nota-Bände auf einen pro Jahr lichen nur gedruckten Version in Vorstand gewählt: Erik van Nieu- reduziert. Eine andere Möglich- eine online open access verfügbare kerken als neuer Präsident, Tho- keit, unsere finanzielle Situation zu und gedruckte Version umgewan- mas Simonsen als Vizepräsident, verbessern, wäre es, aktiver nach delt hat. Carlos Lopez Vaamonde als Gene- Spenden zu suchen. Schließlich Die News 56 wurden am 23. ralsekretär und Hossein Rajaei als möchten wir auch die Wichtig- Dezember 2015, News 57 im Juni Mitgliedersekretär. Des Weiteren keit betonen, den Mitgliedsbeitrag 2016 und News 58 im Dezember wurden folgende Einfache Vor- möglichst zeitig im Jahr einzuzah- 2016 veröffentlicht. Franziska Bau- standsmitglieder gewählt: Joaquín len. Wie erwägen die Möglichkeit, er ist neue Redakteurin dieses nur Baixeras Almela, Iva Mihoci und ein Bußgeld von solchen Mitglie- online erscheinenden Journals, das Pasquale Trematerra. Rolf Mörtter dern zu fordern, die nicht rechtzei- nun SELepidoptera News heißt wird als Rechnungsprüfer gewählt tig zahlen. Wolfgang Eckweiler hat und mehr Beiträge als zuvor ent- und ersetzt Bernd Traub. in FileMaker eine Datenbank ent- hält. Franziska wird für die exzel-

12 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica lente Qualität von News gedankt. der SEL hat 790 Follower und ist statt. Das Treffen wurde vom Na- damit bei weitem der beste Weg, turmuseum Südtirol (Bozen) und SEL-Webseite ein breites Publikum zu erreichen. dem Ferdinandeum (Innsbruck) Richard Mally ist Webseiten-Ma- Es ist daher wichtig, über die Akti- mit Gerhard Tarmann als Haup- nager und aktualisiert und verbes- vitäten, die die SEL betreffen, wie torganisator veranstaltet. 50 Wis- sert die SEL-Webseite mit neuen zum Beispiel die Veröffentlichung senschaftler aus 16 Nationen nah- Inhalten. Richard hatte im vergan- von News und Nota sowie unsere men an diesem wichtigen Treffen genen Jahr vollständigen Zugang Kongresse in Echtzeit zu berichten. teil. Der Verzicht von Pestizidein- zur Webseite. Wir streben an, den satz in der Landwirtschaft in Mals Beitritt neuer Mitglieder sowie die SEL-Forschungsareale wird auch von anderen Dörfern in Beitragszahlung online verfügbar Bestandsaufnahmen von Lepi- der Umgebung aufgegriffen. zu machen und somit zu verein- dopteren im Galičica Park erga- fachen. Onlinezahlung würde eine ben über 600 Arten. Zusätzlich (Übersetzt von Franziska Bauer) viel leichtere Methode darstellen, fand vom 11.–16. September 2016 ■ Mitglied zu werden und somit hof- das XV. Internationale Zygaeni- fentlich auch die Mitgliederzahl den-Symposium in Mals im des vergrößern. Die Facebook-Seite SEL-Forschungsareals Sesvenna

New SEL committees: a call for collaboration! SEL President Erik van Nieukerken; [email protected]

Future of SEL. Only once every pare recommendations for one or Finances. We also want to estab- two years members and the coun- more future general meetings. If lish assistance for the treasurer in cil have the chance to get together you are interested to support this the form of a committee “Financ- and discuss about the society and idea and can assist the SEL in this es”. The bookkeeping and report- its future plans during our general way, please send an e-mail to the ing is a time-consuming task for meeting. In a fast changing world general secretary or the president the treasurer, and the committee with the possibilities of modern (for addresses see page 2) express- could support his work in two dif- communication we would like to ing your interest. It is also possible ferent ways: hear more from members about that one or several council mem- 1) Direct support of the treasurer their thoughts, ideas and opinions bers participate in this committee. by helping with communication related to the society. Is our soci- Items for discussion could in- with members. This is, of course, ety still what we hoped for, or are clude whether the SEL should stick partly the task of local treasurers, there other wishes or possibilities? to the publications + congress, and who maybe should become part of SEL was founded in 1976, in an- the study areas, or whether we this committee, but some more di- other era with completely different should extend our activities with rect help is very welcome. Since the means of communication. Even e.g. more research in the form of SEL is a society registered in Ger- though our organisation has slow- organised collecting trips in the many, it would be advantageous if ly changed and adopted modern years between congresses. Should at least one committee member is ways, in many aspects SEL is still we actively collaborate in Euro- living in Germany. the same as in the early 80s. This pean Moth Nights? Should we get 2) Exploration of additional ways is not necessarily a bad thing, and more involved in conservation as- of obtaining funds for the society the two main pillars for the socie- pects? Should we be more active in order to get a healthier financial ty are still the publications and the in taxonomy by e.g. compiling and situation. This could include look- congresses. However, we cannot publishing catalogues and check- ing for sponsors, ways to increase ignore the need for the society’s lists? Should we collaborate more the number of members, dona- modernisation, and we wish to get with lepidopterists working in e.g. tions, etc. A recent suggestion was members more involved in this di- physiology, ecology and agricul- to organise a Silent Auction during alogue. ture etc.? The committee can use the congress. Therefore, we would like to the SEL media for communication start a committee “Future of SEL” with members (SELepidoptera We are looking forward to hearing that organises this discussion with News, Facebook, SEL website) or from you! members and the council, to pre- start new ideas. ■

No. 59 June 2017 13 2017 SEL Treasurer’s report – Rapport financier – Kassenbericht by/par/von Robert Trusch, April/Avril 27, 2017 in/à Podgora (Croatia/Croatie/Kroatien)

Treasurer’s reportTreasurer’s p 14 pp 14–15 pp 15–16

Treasurer’s Report 2017 was 33,267.75 EUR. With- accounts. out further income, only 9,510.65 All payments please to the Post- on the period January 1, 2015 to EUR would remain in our account, bank Köln (Cologne): December 31, 2016 minus all the expenses listed in Ta- IBAN: ble 1b. Until December 31, 2017, DE63 3701 0050 0195 6505 07 Auditing and notice of exemption however, the SEL expects the pay- BIC: PBNKDEFF The final calculations for the years ment of unpaid membership fees Kto. 1956 50 507 (BLZ 370 100 50) 2015 and 2016 and the accounts for 2017 from 169 ordinary mem- ■ were audited by Axel Steiner from bers (à 50 EUR = 8,450 EUR) and Rapport financier Rapport Wöschbach and Dr. Rolf Mörtter from seven corporate members (à Rapport financier from Kronau without remarks. 65 EUR = 455 EUR), in total we The responsible tax office (city expect receipts of additional 9,000 pour la période du 1er janvier 2015 of Karlsruhe) has confirmed on EUR. Thus, the expected balance au 31 décembre 2016 June 30, 2016 that the SEL is re- at the end of 2017 is 17,000 EUR. leased from corporation tax for As a result, the start of our 2018 ac- Auditeurs et exemption de taxes the years 2013–2015 (Fig. 1). In count will be roughly the same as L’arrêté des comptes et la totalité Germany members can contin- at the beginning of 2017. de la comptabilité pour les années ue to deduct their fees from tax 2015 et 2016 ont été audités par within income-tax return (tax no. Networking of member adminis- Axel Steiner (Wöschbach) et le Dr. 35022/74235). The next check for tration and accounting Rolf Mörtter (Kronau) et ils n’ont the years 2016–2018 is due in 2019. Since the beginning of the year formulé aucune remarque. Table 1 shows the income, expens- 2017, a number of meetings have Le 30 juin 2016 le responsable es and balances for both reporting been held between membership des Impôts (ville de Karlsruhe) a years, table 2 and figure 2 for years secretary, treasurer and Wolfgang confirmé que la SEL est exonérée 2011 to 2016. Eckweiler in Stuttgart, Karlsru- de la taxe sur les commerces pour he and Frankfurt/Main with the les années 2013 à 2015 (Fig. 1). Les Utilisation of funds aim of creating a better network membres résidents en Allemagne The main source of the funds that of member administration and ac- peuvent continuer à déduire la are available for the SEL is formed counting. The result is shown in cotisation à la SEL de leurs reve- by the membership fees (>98%). Figure 4. nus (tax N° 35022/74235). La pro- Income from the sale of old issues chaine opération de ce genre est of Nota Lepidopterologica hard- Acknowledgment prévue en 2019 pour les exercices ly plays a role. If one looks at the In the name of the SEL council, I 2016 à 2018. Le tableau 1 montre expenses, then in 2015 and 2016 would like to thank Dr. Wolfgang les recettes, les dépenses et la ba- – if production and postage for Eckweiler for the development and lance pour les deux années 2015 et Nota Lepidopterologica are tak- database implementation of the 2016; le tableau 2 récapitule ces in- en together – 83% of all financial networking of member adminis- formations de 2011 à 2016. means were used for our journal tration and accounting. only. Traveling costs for council Once more I would like to thank Utilisation du budget members only occur in the years especially our local treasurers for La principale recette de la SEL between SEL congresses, and their work! I know about the dif- est constituée des cotisations des there ­fore taken over two years only ficulties in reminding members membres (>98%). La vente d’an- cover 3% of our expenses. Other again and again. But it seems to ciens numéros de Nota Lepidop- expenses can be seen in Figure 3. be very necessary, because the terologica est très marginale. L’exa- By the end of the year 2017, the very existence of SEL depends on men des dépenses pour 2015 et expenditure listed in Table 1b still a well-balanced account. Last but 2016, montre que 83% est dû à la applies. not least I wish to thank our au- seule production de Nota (en agré- ditors Axel Steiner and Dr. Rolf geant les frais d’impression et d’en- Prognosis 2017 Mörtter for their careful and time- voi). Les frais de déplacement des The account balance on April 17, ly check of the calculations and all membres du Conseil n’existent que

14 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica durant l’année intercalaire entre Steiner et le Dr. Rolf Mörtter, pour SEL-Kongress treffen konnte. Sie

deux Congrès et leur montant leur attentif travail de vérification schlagen damit auf zwei Jahre ge- Kassenbericht pour les 2 années ne compte que des comptes, toujours produit dans sehen nur mit 3% zu Buche. Wei- pour 3% des dépenses. Les autres les délais. tere Ausgabeposten können der dépenses sont indiquées dans le ta- Pour tout paiement, merci d’opé- Grafik (Abbildung 3) entnommen bleau 3. Pour la fin de l’année 2017, rer vos transferts à la Postbank werden. Bis zum Jahresende 2017 les dépenses listées dans le tableau Köln (Cologne): stehen noch die in Tabelle 1b ge- 1b ont été estimées. IBAN: nannten Ausgaben an. DE63 3701 0050 0195 6505 07 Budget prévisionnel pour 2017 BIC: PBNKDEFF Prognose für 2017 Au 17 avril 2017, le solde était de Kto. 1956 50 507 (BLZ 370 100 50) Der Kontostand am 17.4.2017 be- 33267,75 €. Sans autre recette et trug 33.267,75 EUR. Ohne weitere en le diminuant de toutes les dé- (Traduit par Eric Drouet) Einkünfte würden abzüglich aller pense listées dans le tableau 1b, il ■ in Tabelle 1b aufgeführten Ausga- sera réduit à 9510,65€. D’ici le 31 ben nur noch 9.510,65 EUR auf un- décembre 2017, la SEL attend le rè- Kassenbericht serem Konto verbleiben. Bis zum glement de cotisations non payées 31.12.2017 erwartet die SEL jedoch au titre de 2017, par 169 membres über den Zeitraum vom 01.01.2015 die Zahlung bisher noch nicht be- ordinaires (50€ x 169= 8450€) et 7 bis 31.12.2016 zahlter Beiträge für 2017 von 169 membres institutionnels (65€x7= normalen Mitgliedern (à 50 EUR = 455€). Au total nous espérons en- Kassenprüfung und Freistel- 8.450 EUR) sowie von sieben insti- registrer des rentrées pour environ lungsbescheid tutionellen Mitgliedern (à 65 EUR 9000€. De ce fait la balance pré- Die Jahresrechnungen für die Jah- = 455 EUR), insgesamt also 9000 visionnelle pour la fin 2017 s’éta- re 2015 und 2016 sind von den EUR. Somit beträgt der erwartete blirait à 17000€. Au début 2018 la Kassenprüfern Axel Steiner aus Kontostand zum Jahresende 2017 situation nette serait donc sensible- Wöschbach und Dr. Rolf Mörtter 17.000 EUR. Damit wird der An- ment équivalente à celle qui préva- aus Kronau ohne Beanstandungen fangsstand unseres Kontos 2018 lait début 2017. geprüft worden. ungefähr in gleicher Höhe liegen Am 30.06.2016 hat uns das wie zu Beginn des Jahres 2017. Organisation d’un réseau entre la zuständige Finanzamt (Karlsru- comptabilité et le secrétariat aux he-Stadt) bestätigt, dass SEL für Vernetzung von Mitgliederver- membres die Jahre 2013–2015 von der Kör- waltung und Buchhaltung Depuis le début de 2017, un grand perschaftsteuer befreit ist (Abbil- Seit dem Jahresbeginn 2017 kam nombre d’échanges entre le Secré- dung 1). In Deutschland können es zu etlichen Treffen von Mitglie- taire aux membres, le Trésorier et die Mitglieder ihre gezahlten Bei- dersekretär, Schatzmeister und Dr. Wolfgang Eckweiler à Stuttgart, träge weiterhin bei ihrer Einkom- Wolfgang Eckweiler in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe et Frankfort- sur-le- menssteuer absetzen (Steuer-Nr. Karlsruhe und Frankfurt/M. mit Main, ont permis de mette au point 35022/74235). Die nächste Prü- dem Ziel, eine bessere Vernetzung un réseau informatique d’échanges fung für die Jahre 2016–2018 wird von Mitgliederverwaltung und plus direct entre l’administration im Jahr 2019 fällig. Tabelle 1 zeigt Buchhaltung zu schaffen. Das Er- des membres et la comptabilité. Un Einkünfte, Ausgaben und Salden gebnis ist in Abbildung 4 darge- exemple en est montré dans le ta- für die Berichtsjahre 2015 und stellt. bleau 4. 2016, Tabelle 2 und Abbildung 2 selbiges für die Jahre 2011 bis 2016. Dank Remerciements Im Namen des Vorstandes der SEL Au nom du Conseil de la SEL, Mittelverwendung danke ich Herrn Dr. Wolfgang je tiens à remercier le Dr. Wolf- Die der SEL zur Verfügung stehen- Eckweiler für die Entwicklung und gang Eckweiler pour son implica- den Mittel stammen zum größten datenbanktechnische Umsetzung tion dans la réalisation d’un outil Teil aus den Mitgliedsbeiträgen der Vernetzung von Mitglieder- d’échange entre l’administration (>98%). Spenden oder Einkünfte verwaltung und Buchhaltung. des membres et la comptabilité. aus dem Verkauf älterer Nota Lepi- Weiterhin möchte ich mich bei Je souhaite également adresser dopterologica-Bände spielen eine unseren lokalen Schatzmeistern mes remerciements aux membres untergeordnete Rolle. Betrachtet für die geleistete Arbeit bedanken! qui collectent les cotisations dans man die Ausgabenseite, so wurden Ich weiß, dass es Mühe macht, alle leur pays respectif. Je sais que la 2015 und 2016 – rechnet man die Mitglieder eines Landes immer charge de relancer encore et encore Herstellung von Nota Lepidop- wieder an die Beitragszahlung zu les membres qui n ‘ont pas payé est terologica und deren Versand zu- erinnern. Aber diese Arbeit ist pénible. Cependant leur action est sammen – 83% der Mittel allein sehr wichtig, denn sie sichert die très bénéfique à la SEL dont l’exis- für unsere Zeitschrift verwendet. Lebensgrundlage der SEL. Zum tence repose sur une assise finan- Reisekosten für die Vorstandsmit- Schluss, jedoch keineswegs an letz- cière solide. Enfin il m’est agréable glieder fielen nur in dem Jahr an, ter Stelle, danke ich den beiden de remercier les auditeurs Axel in dem man sich nicht auf dem Kassenprüfern Bernd Traub und

No. 59 June 2017 15 Axel Steiner für die sorgfältige und BIC: PBNKDEFF termingerechte Prüfung der Rech- Kto. 1956 50 507 (BLZ 370 100 50) nungen und aller Konten. ■ Überweisungen bitte an die Post- bank Köln: IBAN: DE63370100500195650507

Figure 1. Notice of exemption for the years 2013–2015. Figure 1. Notice d’exonération des Impôts pour les années 2013–2015. Abbildung 1. Freistellungsbescheid für die Jahre 2013–2015.

year/année/Jahr 2015 2016

income/recettes/Einnahmen [€] 23.191,22 28.034,42

expenses/dépenses/Ausgaben [€] 42.254,74 23.431,96

balance/Saldo [€] -19.063,52 4.602,46

account/situation du compte/Kostenstände [€] 31.12.2015 16.367,53 31.12.2016 20.969,99

01.01.2015 35.431,05 01.01.2016 16.367,53

Balance/Saldo -19.063,52 4.602,46

Table 1a. Overview of income, expenses and balances of the report period from 2015 to 2016. Tableau 1a. Graphique montrant l’évolution des recettes, des dépenses et de la balance de 2015 à 2016. Tabelle 1a. Übersicht der Einnahmen, Ausgaben und Salden des Berichtszeitraumes 2015 bis 2016.

16 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica receipts, expenses and balances/recettes, dépenses et solde/Einnahmen, Ausgaben und Salden [€]

Jan 1–Dec 31, Jan 1–Dec 31, Jan 01–Apr 17, 2017 2015 2016 receipts/recettes/Einnahmen fees/cotisations/Beiträge 22,964.52 26,170.00 18,462.50 (9,000.00 expected until the end of 2017/attendus d’ici la fin 2017/zu erwarten bis Ende 2017) donations/dons/Spenden 226.70 1,864.42 447.89 total receipts/total des recettes/ 23,191.22 28,034.42 18,910.39 Gesamteinnahmen expenses/dépenses/Ausgaben printing and producing Nota lep./ 22,417.34 16,173.27 7,000.00 (expected) Impression et production de Nota Lep./ Druck und Produktion von Lota lep. 10,030.00 10,180.00 10,090.00 (expected) – Pensoft Service 4,193.20 – Nota lep. 37 (2) 2014 4,371.66 – Nota lep. 38 (1) 2015 3,822.48 – Nota lep. 38 (2) 2015 5,993.27 – Nota lep. 39 (1+2) 2016 – Nota lep. 40 (1+2) 2017 postage/frais d'envoi/Versand 5,231.17 2,229.27 2,500.00 (expected) – Porto Nota 37(2) 2014 1,339.73 – Porto Nota 38(1) 2015 1,730.26 – Porto Nota 38(2) 2015 1,838.35 – others 322.83 congress/congrès/Kongress 4,540.00 – council/conseil/Vorstand – 1,217.31 2,000.00 (expected) support for students/aide aux étudi- 2,900.00 – ants/Unterstützung für Studenten website/site internet/Webseite 4,328.33 – 250.00 (expected) – Setup/mise à jour/Erstellung 4.221.53

VAT/TVA/Mehrwertsteuer 2,468.10 3,839.90 1,917.00 (expected) – Pensoft 1,905.70 1,934.20 others/divers/andere 369.80 27.79 total expenses/total des dépenses/ 42,254.74 23,431.96 24,400.00 Gesamtausgaben (so far/jusque là/bis jetzt 620.67)

BALANCE/SALDO -19,063.52 4,602.46 3,500.00 (expected after payment of all arrears/attendus grace au pai- ement des arriérés/erwartet nach Einnahme aller Ausstände)

Table 1b. Receipts, expenses and balance during the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 (for the the last party estimated). Tableau 1b. Recettes, dépenses et balance pour les exercices 2015 et 2016 et en partie estimé pour 2017. Tabelle 1b. Einnahmen, Ausgaben und Kontostände in den Jahren 2015, 2016 und 2017 (letztere teilweise geschätzt).

No. 59 June 2017 17 extra expenses in the bookkeeping year 2015/autres previous year/ congress/ single/ TOTAL dépenses comptabilisées en 2015/zusätzliche Ausgaben année précé- congrès/ dépenses im Kontoführungsjahr 2015 dente/voran- Kongress isolées/ gegangenes Einzelaus- Jahr gabe

bill of January 13, 2015 Nota lep. 37(2) print, distribution/ -4,193.20 -4,193.20 facture du 13 janvier 2015 Nota lep. 37(2), impression et envoi/Rechnung vom 13. Januar 2015, Druck und Versand von Nota lep. 37(2)

postage HF02/01 for Nota lep. 37-2-2014, customer 28581/ -1,339.73 -1,339,73 Frais de poste HF02/01 pour Nota lep. 37-2-2014, client 28581/Versand HF02/01 von Nota lep. 37-2-14, Kunde 28581

contribution towards expenses for congress/frais de con- -4,540,00 -4,540,00 grès/Beitrag zu Kongresskosten

student support/aide aux étudiants/Unterstützung für -2,900.00 -2,900.00 Studenten

new website/nouveau site internet/neue Webseite -4,221.53 -4,221.53

total extra expenses 2015/Total des dépenses autres pour -5,532.93 -7,440.00 -4,221.53 -17,194.46 2015/Gesamte zusätzliche Ausgaben 2015

extra expenses in the bookkeeping year 2016/autres ...previous year congress single TOTAL dépenses comptabilisées en 2016/zusätzliche Ausgaben im Kontoführungsjahr 2016

VAT Pensoft bill 2015/TVA –facture Pensoft 2015/Umsatz- -1,905.70 -1,905.70 steuer Pensoft-Rechnung 2015

total extra expenses 2015/total des dépenses autres pour -1,905.70 0 0 -1,905.70 2016/Gesamte zusätzliche Ausgaben 2015

Table 1c. Extra expenses in the bookkeeping years 2015 and 2015. Tableau 1c. Graphique montrant l’évolution des recettes, des dépenses et de la balance de 2015 à 2016. Tabelle 1c. Zusätzliche Ausgaben in den Kontoführungsjahren 2015 und 2016.

50.000,00 € balance/Saldo 40.000,00 € income/rece:es/Einnahmen Expenses/dépenses/Ausgaben 30.000,00 €

20.000,00 €

10.000,00 €

0,00 € 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 -­‐10.000,00 €

-­‐20.000,00 €

-­‐30.000,00 € 18 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica year/année/Jahr 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Balance/Saldo [€] -4,076.67 391.15 2,476.47 -6,062.23 -19,063.52 4,602.46 income/recettes/Einnahmen [€] 19,466.65 23,610.07 22,722.18 20,138.46 23,191.22 28,034.42 expenses/dépenses/Ausgaben [€] 23,543.32 23,218.92 20,245.71 26,200.69 42,254.74 23,431.96

Figure 2 and table 2. Summary of income, expenses and balances for the years 2011 to 2016. Figure 2 et tableau 2. Résumé des dépenses, recettes et évolution de la balance pour les années 2011 à 2016. Abbildung 2 und Tabelle 2. Übersicht der Einnahmen, Ausgaben und Salden der Jahre 2011 bis 2016.

bank, office, other/banque, student support/aide aux council/conseil/Vorstand bureau, divers/Bank, Büro, étudiants/Unterstützung 3% andere für Studenten 1% 3% website/site web/Webseite 5%

congress site/site web congrès/Kongress-­‐ Webseite 5%

Penso: 34% postage/frais d'envoi/ Versandkosten 11%

VAT/TVA/MwSt. 11%

Nota lepidopterologica 27%

Figure 3. Pie chart of SEL's main funds usage over the years 2015–2016. Figure 3. Graphique schématisant l’usage du budget pour 2015 et 2016. Abbildung 3. Prozentuale Verwendung der SEL-Hauptmittel in den Berichtsjahren 2015–2016.

No. 59 June 2017 19 Figure 4. New solution for member administration and accounting created in FileMaker. Figure 4. Exemple de page du réseau informatique associant secrétariat et comptabilité développé sous Filemaker. Abbildung 4. Neue Lösung für Buchhaltung und Mitgliederverwaltung mithilfe von FileMaker.

20 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica New Treasurer: handing over the Nouveau Trésorier: passation des Neuer Schatzmeister: Übergabe documents documents der Unterlagen Since the Council election during Lors du 20ème congrès de la SEL Seit der Vorstandswahl auf dem 20. the 20th Congress of Lepidopterol- à Podgora, Croatie, le Conseil a Kongress für Lepidopterologie in ogy in Podgora, Croatia (compare élu un nouveau Trésorier (cf. le Podgora/Kroatien (vergleiche diese these SELepidoptera News: min- compte-rendu de l'Assemblée Gé- SELepidoptera News: Protokoll der utes of the general meeting), SEL nérale dans SELepidoptera News Mitgliederversammlung) hat die has a new treasurer: Dr. Wolfgang N° 59). Il s'agit du Dr. Wolfgang SEL einen neuen Schatzmeister: Dr. Eckweiler from Frankfurt on the Eckweiler de Francfort-sur-le- Wolfgang Eckweiler aus Frankfurt Main, Germany. On May 24, 2017 Main, Allemagne. La passation des am Main. Am 24. Mai 2017 erfolgte the handover of the documents documents comptables de la SEL die Übergabe der Unterlagen durch from the old treasurer Dr. Robert entre l'ancien trésorier (Robert den alten Schatzmeister Dr. Robert Trusch to his successor took place Trusch) et le nouveau a eu lieu le Trusch an seinen Nachfolger in in Frankfurt (Fig. 1). 24 mai 2017 (Fig. 1). Frankfurt (Fig. 1). New contact information: Les nouvelles coordonnées du Tré- Neue Kontaktdaten: SEL Treasurer sorier de la SEL sont: SEL-Schatzmeister Dr. Wolfgang Eckweiler SEL Trésorerie Dr. Wolfgang Eckweiler Gronauer Str. 40 Dr. Wolfgang Eckweiler Gronauer Str. 40 D-60385 Frankfurt am Main Gronauer Str. 40 60385 Frankfurt am Main Germany D-60385 Francfort-sur-le-Main Deutschland Allemagne e-mail: SEL-members@eckweiler. e-mail: SEL-members@eckweiler. E-Mail: SEL-members@eckweiler. com com com Please send all transfers to: Dorénavant tous vos paiements Alle Überweisungen bitte an: Postbank Köln (Deutsche Post- doivent être adressés à: Postbank Köln (Deutsche Postbank bank AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee Postbank Köln (Deutsche Post- AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 114– 114–126, D-53113 Bonn, Germa- bank AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 126, D-53113 Bonn, Deutschland) ny) 114–126, D-53113 Bonn, Alle- IBAN: DE63370100500195650507 IBAN: DE63370100500195650507 magne) BIC: PBNKDEFF BIC: PBNKDEFF IBAN: DE63370100500195650507 BIC: PBNKDEFF

Figure 1. Previous SEL treasurer Robert Trusch (left) handing over the documents to the new treasurer Wolfgang Eckweiler on May 24, 2017 in Frankfurt (Germany).

No. 59 June 2017 21 Changes to the list of members – Änderungen zur Mitglieder- liste – Changements à la liste des membres Hossein Rajaei, SEL membership secretary; [email protected]

Abbreviations – abréviations – Ab- Cuadrado, Mariano Changes in email addresses – kürzungen Zoobotanico Jerez, Jerez de la Fron- Geänderte E-Mail-Adressen – SI: special interests – Interessen – tera, Cádiz, Spain Changements d’adresses e-mail intéresses [email protected] SI: behaviour, ecology, migration of Jaros, Josef Lepidoptera [email protected] New members – Neue Mitglieder – Nouveaux membres Dey, Pritha Lafontaine, Donald Wildlife Institute of India [email protected] Adamski, David [email protected] National Museum of Natural History, SI: Geometridae Lopez Vaamonde, Carlos Dept. of Entomology, Smithsonian [email protected] Institution, Washington, DC, USA Feizpour, Samira [email protected] State Museum of Natural History, Schmitz, Oliver SI: Gelechioidea Stuttgart, Germany [email protected] [email protected] Barbero, Francesca SI: Geometridae Wahlberg, Niklas Dept. Life Sciences & Systems Biolo- [email protected] gy, University of Turin Ghanavi, Hamid-Reza [email protected] Dept. Biology, Ecology Building, SI: Butterflies in general Lund University, Sweden Deceased – Verstorben – Décédé [email protected] Biblioteca Museo Civico di Sienze SI: Geometridae Spitzer, Karel (November 27, 2016) Naturali "E. Caffi" ■ Bergamo, Italy Saadain, Sarah [email protected] Dept. of Integrative Zoology, Univer- sity of Vienna Call, Elsa [email protected] Dept. Biology, Ecology Building, SI: Noctuidae Lund University, Sweden [email protected] Tokár, Zdenko SI: Geometridae and Noctuidae Sala, Slovakia [email protected] Chazot, Nicolas SI: Microlepidoptera Dept. Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, Sweden [email protected] Changes to the list of members / Änderungen in der Mitgliederliste / Changements à la liste des membres des liste à la / Changements Mitgliederliste der in / Änderungen members of list the to Changes

22 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica My SEL congress impressions Sarah Saadain, Natural History Museum Vienna, A-1010 Vienna; [email protected]

The 20th SEL congress in Podgora, Croatia was organized by Iva Mi- hoci, Martina Šašić and their team from the Croatian Natural Histo- ry Museum (Dora Hlebec, Jelena Babić, Hrvoje Žunić and Denis Bućan) together with the council of the Societas Europaea Lepidop- terologica. It was a well-organized meeting with a broad range of ac- tivities, such as boat trips, live mu- sic and of course lots of interesting talks. With 127 people attending the congress and 71 speakers from 29 countries, the talks were quite diverse and of excellent quality. The venue for the congress was the Medora Auri Hotel in Podgora (Dalmatia) which is located right at the beach and allowed the par- ticipants to have a great view over Figure 1. Sarah Saadain in front of Podgora Beach. the impressive scenery. The congress started on April Movie Theatre, which was about to stay in for another four days! 24th with welcoming words by SEL 10 min walking distance away After the drive back to the hotel, president Erik van Nieukerken from the Hotel along the beach. three-minute talks and the poster and the event organizers Martina On April 26th many of us had the session began. The next two days Šašić and Iva Mihoci. The second opportunity to go on a half day were filled with interesting talks day started with a broad variety of field trip to Biokovo Nature Park and the SEL general meeting. Dur- excellent talks, ranging from evo- (Fig. 2). While enjoying the mag- ing nights, many of us used the lutionary history hidden in the nificent view we got spoiled with opportunity to go light trapping genome to ecology, conservation some traditional Croatian liquor. (Fig. 3). The official program of and lepidopteran diversity of the The trip was well organized and it the congress ended with the gala Balkans, etc. Talks were held at the was a good occasion to get an im- dinner and student awards. On the Medora Auri Hotel as well as the pression of the area we were going 29th of April we had a full day trip

Figure 2. View from Biokovo Nature Park (Photo: Sarah Saadain) Figure 3. Using the light trap together with Markus Fluri (Photo: Sarah Saadain)

No. 59 June 2017 23 Figure 4. Markus Fluri, Denis Bućan, Vladimir Krpach, Gerhard Tarmann, Daniel Bartsch, and David Adamski (fltr) enjoying Rakija and strawberries on the boat trip (Photo: Sarah Saadain)

to Neretva, where the heavy rain good weather for bird-watching preciated being among so many didn’t stop us from hiking up the (unfortunately the weather was like-minded people of all ages, to mountain. We were rewarded with quite windy, so birds were more exchange methods, ideas, publica- a delicious Croatian lunch and tra- promising than Lepidoptera). Back tions and specimens. I had numer- ditional strawberry liquor (Rakija). in Podgora, many of us spent their ous interesting discussions, gained In the afternoon some of us went last night together at the hotel (Fig. knowledge and made many new on a boat trip through the channels 5) or at the bars along the coastal friends. Big thanks to the organiz- of Neretva (Fig. 4), accompanied promenade. For me this was the ers and all the participants to make by Croatian musicians who went first SEL congress I have ever at- this congress such an unforgettable from boat to boat so everybody tended. As I didn’t know anybody experience! could enjoy their live music. Later in person before, I was really sur- ■ on we visited the exhibitions of the prised by the pleasant atmosphere archaeological and ornithological of the congress. I enjoyed the talks museums, while others used the as much as the field trips and ap-

Figure 5. Enjoying the last night together in the hotel lobby (Photo: Denis Bućan)

24 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica 20th European Congress of Lepidopterology, Podgora, Croatia, 2017 First Impressions by a lepidopterist from across the Pond David Adamski, Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-70112; [email protected]

For the first time in my career, as of a natural phylogenetic-classi- a lepidopterist and rookie member fication of the Blastobasidae was of SEL, I participated in the 20th well received and afterwards I was European Congress of Lepidop- approached by several researchers, terology held in Podgora, Croatia. curators, and collectors suggest- The congress was represented by ing future collaborative ventures. researchers, curators, collectors, Casual times while eating or drink- and conservationists representing ing became the most important over 30 European countries. It was times for networking. like being part of a United Nations SEL scheduled two excursions: of lepidopterology. It was a great one at midweek Biokovo National venue for me to make a "splash", Park along the Dalmatian Coast of networking with a congregation of the Adriatic Sea and one after the lepidopterists whom I knew only congress ended for hiking and vis- by name or from a few email cor- iting of two museums for cultural respondences. and natural history experiences. Upon my arrival at the Medora The helpfulness and warmth of all Auri Hotel I was greeted by a small those involved in making this SEL delegation stationed at the SEL Congress successful was truly sin- registration desk. They greeted me cere and made this participant feel warmly and presented me with a like an important part of the event. bag full of SEL Congress memora- I thank all SEL organizing mem- bilia and gave me instructions on bers for making this congress so up-coming events for the congress. successful and I look forward to The presentations were varied, in- traveling to Italy for the next con- formative and professionally deliv- gress in 2019. Figure 1. David Adamski in the Biokovo ered. My presentation on the status ■ Nature Park.

Figure 2. Having fun in the Biokovo Figure 3. David with Geoff Martin (left) and Daniel Rubinoff (right). Mountains (prey: Wolfgang Wittland).

No. 59 June 2017 25 Further SEL congress impressions in images

Figure 1. Congress participants

26 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica Figure 2. First get-together on the day before the congress started (Photo: Hossein Rajaei)

Figure 3. Part of the “old” (left) and of the “new” (right) SEL council (Photos: Franziska Bauer)

Figure 4. Excursion to the Biokovo Nature Park (Photo: Rob- Figure 5. Andro Truuverk, Sille Holm and Toomas Tammaru during ert Trusch) the excursion to the Biokovo Nature Park (Photo: Hossein Rajaei)

No. 59 June 2017 27 Figure 6. Audience during sessions in the movie theater location (Photo: Hossein Rajaei)

Figure 7. President Erik van Nieukerken (leftmost), congress organisers Figure 8. Wolfram Mey, Michael Falkenberg and Robert Martina Šašić, Jadranka Rota and Iva Mihoci (fourth, third and second Trusch during the gala dinner (Photo: Franziska Bauer) ladies from the right) and their supportive team (Photo: Hossein Rajaei)

Figure 10. Vladimir Krpach and Gerhard Tarmann singing Figure 9. Boat trip through the channels of Neretva (Photo: Robert Trusch) (Photos: Franziska Bauer)

28 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica SEL congress student competition 2017 Nils Ryrholm, University of Gävle, AHA, Section of Biology, Gävle, Sweden; [email protected] The student competition was in- This time there were eight poster interesting one. Among the talks troduced as part of the SEL meet- and twelve oral presentations, with we decided that Nicholas Homzi- ings in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, in participants from Austria, Czech ak (USA) presenting a phylogeny 2013. This was considered as a Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ger- of Erebinae with aid a lot of fancy way of inspiring our coming gen- many, Great Britain, India, Italy, PowerPoint gadgets was the winner erations of scientists and also give Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden followed by Sille Holm (Estonia) them more opportunities to prac- and the United States (Fig. 1). Af- presenting her geometrid compar- tise their presentation capacities. ter scrutinizing all posters, talking isons between Estonia and Uganda So with great interest I was look- with respective creators, listening in a novel way. At the concluding ing forward to the third student to the student talks and having in- gala dinner the awards were given competition in Podgora. Together tense discussions about the various to the happy winners (Fig. 2). with my colleagues Bernard Lan- qualities of the particular studies From the committee’s point of dry, Marko Mutanen, Martin War- we had to come up with a ranking view this pleasant contest was a ren and Alberto Zilli, I evaluated order. This was not easy since there promising continuation from the the posters and talks given by the were several top candidates both previous conference. Eventually students. As in the previous meet- in the poster and oral presenta- this may become a new SEL tradi- ings this was both inspiring and tions, but it gave us in the evaluat- tion and if so, I think that we can challenging since the scope of the ing committee an enjoyable time be looking forward to a number of presented studies was very wide, to solve this delicate problem. The interesting presentations in future both geographically and regarding outcome was that we decided that SEL meetings. subjects. When getting the oppor- Katja Rönkä (Finland) presenting ■ tunity to take part in this kind of her studies on arctiids had the most evaluation it becomes obvious how interesting poster followed Michal many things one doesn’t know, Rindoš (Czech Republic), with his but which are already known by Old-World tour in the company of younger scientists! his sphingids as an almost equally

Figure 1. Students taking part in the competition (Photo: Hossein Rajaei)

Figure 2. Katja Rönkä, Sille Holm and Nicholas Homziak with Erik van Nieukerken and Nils Ryrholm (fltr) (Photos: Hossein Rajaei)

No. 59 June 2017 29 Three-minute talks, towards acceleration of scientific communication Hossein Rajaei, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany; [email protected] Jadranka Rota, Lund University, Department of Biology, Lund, Sweden Iva Mihoci, Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

The Croatian Natural History Mu- (only three minutes) pushes the first or second day of the congress. seum and the SEL organised the speakers to go directly to the point: This provides an opportunity for 20th European Congress of Lepi- mentioning only the important is- the attendees to find the speakers dopterology in Podgora, Croatia, sues related to their research. This and continue the discussions in the held from the 23rd to 30th of April short announcement of the project following days of the congress. of this year. 127 lepidopterists from seems to be perfect for initiating 3) This time we had only one min- 29 countries around the world longer discussions between the ute for poster presentations, but took part in this congress. In to- speaker and the audience later on this is really shorter than optimal tal 71 lectures and 24 posters were during the congress. time. If possible, poster presenta- presented. Finally, a congress is a gathering tions should also have three min- An innovation in this congress place of many people with more or utes. was a new session with short pres- less similar interests. It is an ideal 4) Presentations should have max- entations (Fig. 1). The session in- time for advertising new events, imum three (ideally one) slides, cluded 23 speakers who presented calls for cooperation, announce- without any PowerPoint effects. their work in only one hour: a total ments etc., and the Three-Minute 5) Presentations should be self-ex- of 29 registered short talks (includ- Talks session is an answer exactly planatory: little text, clear photos ing poster presentations), followed to this essential need. and maps. by seven additional spontaneous- Lessons from our first experi- 6) Presentations should be handed ly offered short talks (one minute ence? Our first three-minute talks to congress organisers at the latest each). session was extremely successful. one day before the session. They Why Three-Minute Talks? Time We received a lot of positive feed- should be arranged chronological- in any congress is limited and pro- back from many attendees (both ly in one super-presentation. viding an opportunity to everyone speakers and audience). The of- 7) Speakers should be seated in for a presentation in typical ses- ficial poster session (following the first rows of the lecture hall, sions is not always possible. Why three-minute-talks session) was in the same order in which their not having a short talk session for extraordinary lively, entertaining, presentations are given. For this those attendees who can present and well attended. purpose, we labelled the seats with their study in a short time? We learned many lessons from speaker names. Notwithstanding many hours this early experience. Accordingly, 8) The session should be chaired by of preparations and printing costs, the following tips may help with two persons. One of them should posters are a part of congress that is the organisation of the three-min- manage only the time. often neglected by many attendees. ute talks in future congresses: 9) The presentation should be lim- In three-minute talks, the speakers 1) Many people are not familiar ited to three minutes without any can briefly introduce their study with the concept of such a short extra time for questions. and motivate the audience to have talk session, so how this works 10) Keeping the time is the most a closer look at the poster. should be exactly explained in all critical point in such a short talk Most of the time, all what we ac- emails and announcements well session. This important task should quire from a lecture are the main before the abstract deadline, and be carried out by the audience. objectives and results of a research this type of a presentation should We recommend to set a count- project. Usually only a few peo- be registered separately on the reg- down-timer for 180 seconds and ple are interested in all details of istration form. project it on a separate screen. The the methodological aspects of re- 2) The three-minute talks session timer should be started with the search. Having such a short time should be preferably held in the first word of the speaker and the audience should see it count down. The audience should clap as soon as the timer counts to below 3 sec- onds. There are many free count- down-timers online (e.g. http:// www.online-stopwatch.com/ countdown/). 11) A three-minute talk should be mandatory for all poster pres- entations, and the official poster session should be directly after the Figure 1. Three-minute talk session (Photo: Martina Šašić) three-minute talks session. ■

30 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica New Books A distributional checklist of the Lepidoptera of Poland, Jarosław Buszko & Janusz Nowacki (eds), Polish Entomological Monographs, 13: 222 pages. Polish Entomlogical Society ([email protected]. pl). €30.00 Fifteen years have elapsed since the active in the field: from the begin- publication of the first distribu- ning of the 19th century up to 1960, tional check-list of the Polish Lepi- from 1961 to 1985, and from 1986 doptera (Buszko & Nowacki 2000). to 2015. The symbols indicate the Since then fieldwork relating to latest available records for each Lepidoptera in Poland has greatly species. intensified, and the huge amount The nomenclature of the taxa of data amassed in the meantime within Lepidoptera has been has now made it possible to publish adapted from a recent version of a new, revised and updated edition the Fauna Europaea website (Kar- of the checklist. Many species were sholt & Nieukerken 2013). This discovered in Poland for the first new checklist is based on three time, and we now have far more sources of data: literature records, accurate knowledge regarding the specimens in collections and ma- distribution of Lepidoptera in Po- terials from our own field studies. land. The present list contains 3,254 Following the approach used in species, 98 of which are new to the Checklist 2000, the presence of the Polish fauna. Between 1986 a species is given at the provincial and 2015 a total of 3,046 species level. In contrast to the Checklist were recorded. 208 of the species 2000, however, the present one di- recorded prior to this period were tinct in Poland owing to climate vides species records into three pe- not found again; indeed, most of change, habitat loss, or unfavour- riods, corresponding to the times them (155) have not been found able agriculture and forestry man- when several generations of Polish since 1960. They include species agement practices. lepidopterists were particularly which appear to have become ex- ■

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No. 59 June 2017 31 Hofamnn, A. F. & Tremewan, W. G. The Natural History of Burnet Moths (Zygaena Fabricius, 1775) (Lep- idoptera: Zygaenidae), Part 1: General section, Introductory chapters to Historical observations on the bi- ology of burnet moths (Zygaena F.) with detailed remarks on Afrotropical and Oriental Zygaeninae. Proc. Mus. Witt Vol. 6 (1), Munich and Vilnius (2017), 631 pages (and numerous colour plates). Price €150,00 plus postage This monograph is the result of discussed, phenotypic phenomena literature researches for decades, such as sexual dimorphism, poly- uncounted tours through Mediter- morphism, melanism and eryth- ranean and oriental countries, nev- rism are outlined in detail and er ending breeding life stages and distributions maps of these pheno- the examination and evaluation of typic expressions are presented for published and unpublished reports the first time. An extensive chapter and diaries. Moreover, numerous is dedicated to historical authors colleagues have allowed us to pub- and their important contributions lish their most excellent pictures to our present knowledge of the bi- from the wild. ological stages of this group. At the centre of their consider- The two authors have been pre- ation the authors have placed the paring this work for nearly 30 species in their complexity in space years. This is the first part of the and time. The phylogenetic origin, three-parted monograph about geographical differentiation and burnet moths (Zygaeninae). The the many distinct regional and lo- book starts with a foreword by cal adaptations of the ontogenetic Roger L. H. Dennis and a German possible because the publisher gra- stages, from the egg to the imago, ‘Grußwort’ by Günter Ebert. The ciously decided to produce these are discussed in detail. In addition 631 pages text written in English books as non-profit project. to the species of the Palaearctic and along with 2403 colour figures The book can be ordered at genus Zygaena, all Afrotropical and 2261 black-white figures of Museum Witt Munich; for orders and Oriental genera are treat- genitalia structures of both sexes please sent a mail to heike_ ed at length and most species are of all species, fully colour print- [email protected] and CC to figured. Patterns of distribution ed. The moderate price for such [email protected] and and peculiarities of the current a large, extensive and technically [email protected]. Palaearctic faunistic regions are outstanding presentation was only ■

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32 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica The journal “Oriental Insects” Łukasz Przybylowicz, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland; [email protected]

Dear lepidopterist colleagues, forthcoming 3rd issue of volume rising submission numbers, and I 51 (2017) will include further in- am keen to see these increasingly I would like to advertise to you the formation on the requirements ap- published in Oriental Insects. journal Oriental Insects (Fig. 1) of plied to new submissions. which I have been the Chief Editor Last but not least I would like to since the beginning of 2016. The In recent years, we have seen a low express my deep thanks to Wolf- journal is published by Taylor & number of submissions covering ram Mey, member of the Editori- Francis and is indexed in the Web moths or butterflies, and I would al Board, for his voluntary work of Science, with a 2015 Impact Fac- like to encourage more of these in evaluation of Lepidoptera and tor of 0.36. manuscripts going forwards. Pa- Trichoptera manuscripts. pers submitted to the journal from To give you an overview of the July 1 to December 31, 2017 cover- All papers are available online pri- journal contents I cite below parts ing these topics will be made freely or to their printing at http://www. of the Aims & Scope. available for three months on pub- tandfonline.com/action/showAx- – Oriental Insects is an interna- lication to enable maximum read- aArticles?journalCode=toin20. tional, peer-reviewed journal de- ership. Since the time of my edi- For more information visit http:// voted to the publication of original torship, the journal has returned www.tandfonline.com/loi/toin20 research articles and reviews on to its standard number of four or contact directly me. the taxonomy, ecology, biodiversi- issues per year, and now attracts ty and evolution of insects of the annually more than three times as Do not hesitate to ask me in case of Old World tropics. many submissions as previously. any further questions. – Manuscripts referring to Africa, High-quality Lepidoptera studies ■ Australia and Oceania are highly are always welcome within these welcomed. – Research papers covering the study of behavior, conservation, forensic and medical entomology, urban entomology and pest con- trol are encouraged, provided that the research has relevance to the Old World entomofauna. – Precedence will be given to more general manuscripts (e.g. revisions of higher taxa, papers with com- bined methodologies or referring to larger geographic units). De- scriptive manuscripts should re- fer to more than a single species and contain more general results or discussion (e.g. determination keys, biological or ecological data etc.). Laboratory works without zoogeographic or taxonomic refer- ence to the scope of the journal will not be accepted. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer re- view by at least two (usually three) independent, anonymous expert referees in the field of the submit- ted paper. All peer review is sin- gle blind and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. The Figure 1. Cover of Oriental Insects 50 (1)

No. 59 June 2017 33 Rienk de Jong's paper “Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)” in Zootaxa 4270 (1): 001–063, 2017

Maria Heikkilä, Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS, University of Helsinki, Finland; [email protected]

Although butterflies are an ex- based on superficial similarity to about the fossil record of butter- tremely diverse group, they have extant species, not reliable charac- flies in general, the use of fossils seldom been preserved as fossils. ter evidence. as calibration points in divergence Even these rare specimens, but In his very recent paper pub- time analyses and offers several only when correctly identified, lished in Zootaxa, Rienk de Jong aspects to take into consideration are important for research aiming (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Lei- when planning to describe fossils. at obtaining a better understand- den) has tackled this obstacle and If you have access to Zootaxa ing of the evolutionary history of critically reviewed the identifica- papers, then you'll find the the superfamily – estimating the tion of all known fossil butterflies. publication here: time of the origin of the different He carefully goes over the available http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ lineages and of morphological, character evidence and discusses article/view/zootaxa.4270.1.1 behavioural and ecological novel- the relationship of fossil taxa to ties, and shedding light on the his- extant taxa in the light of recent Alternatively, Rienk de Jong is torical distribution. However, the information on the systematics of happy to provide you with a PDF of identifications of fossil butterflies butterflies. his paper – just ask him. You can have been known to be unreliable The main objective of the paper find his contact information here: thus making conclusions drawn is to provide reliable fossil calibra- https://science.naturalis.nl/en/ from the fossil record questiona- tion points for molecular clock people/scientists/rienk-de-jong ble. Most specimens are very frag- analyses, but it also offers captivat- mentary and the identifications are ing information for those curious ■

Figure 1. Protocoeliades kristenseni de Jong, 2016, the oldest butterfly fossil known.

34 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica Thaumetopoea hellenica sp. n. and Thaumetopoea mediterranea sp. n., new taxa from southern Europe (Notodontidae: Thaumetopoeinae) Pasquale Trematerra, Department S.A.V.A. Univ. Molise Edificio Facoltà di Agraria, I-86100 Campobasso, Italy; [email protected]

Two new species of Lepidoptera of comparison of the morphological Publication: the genus Thaumetopoea Hübner, characters (genitalia and canthus Trematerra, P., Scalercio, S., Co- 1820, T. hellenica sp. n. Trematerra of males) and the results of ge- lacci, M. (2017). Thaumetopoea & Scalercio and T. mediterranea sp. netic analysis (DNA barcoding) it hellenica sp. n. and Thaumetopoea n. Trematerra & Scalercio are de- was found that the material from mediterranea sp. n. new taxa from scribed. The adults ofT. hellenica Greece and from Pantelleria Island southern Europe (Lepidoptera were collected from two localities are different from Thaumetopoea Notodontidae Thaumetopoeinae). in Greece: Magnessia (Thessaly) pityocampa (Den. and Schiff.) col- Redia, 100: 3–10. and Kifissia, Ktima Syggrou (Ath- lected from Italy and Spain. This ■ ens). Adults of T. mediterranea same material of the new species is were collected from the Island also different from all the species of of Pantelleria (Trapani, Italy). By the genus.

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Figure 1. Thaumetopoea hellenica sp. n.: adult (1); male genitalia (2). Thaumetopoea me- Fig.diterranea I – Thaumetopoea sp. n.: adult hellenica (3); male sp.genitalia n.: adult (4). (1);Thaumetopoea male genitalia pityocampa (2). Thaumetopoea: adult (5); male mediterraneagenitalia (6). sp. n.: adult (3); male genitalia (4). Thaumetopoea pityocampa sp. n.: adult (5); male genitalia (6). No. 59 June 2017 35 An interesting aberration of Campaea margaritaria (Linnaeus, 1761) (Geometridae) Balázs Tóth, volunteer in the Lepidoptera Collection, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; [email protected]

On September 2, 2016 János Bab- of the Szalkay Hungarian Lepi- forewing. In addition, the white ics and I were collecting in Gánt- dopterological Society. As nobody transverse lines are blurred at a Gránás (Vértes Mts, Transdanu- was familiar with this aberration, I great extent on both wings, and bian Range, Hungary). A total of checked the C. margaritaria collec- the medial area of the forewing is 73 moth species came to light that tion of the Hungarian Natural His- conspicuously darker than the ba- night, one of them was Campaea tory Museum. It had not contained sal or the marginal field. In typical margaritaria, represented by ca. anything similar to my specimen. specimens the white transverse fifty specimens. Suddenly I noticed That is why I decided to deposit lines are sharp, and the medial area a strange one (Fig. 1), which was that moth in the Museum, making becomes gradually lighter towards sitting on the sheet, and caught it. it accessible for further study. the base. I have not found any similar This aberration differs from ■ form on the internet at first try so the typical specimens mainly by I posted a photo to the mailing list the very broad medial area on the

Figure 1. An unusual specimen of Campaea margaritaria from Gánt-Gránás, Vértes Mts, Transdanubian Range, Hungary.

36 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica An illustrated checklist of the Austrian Noctuoidea Martin Lödl, Sabine Gaal-Haszler, Peter Huemer, Sarah Saadain, Gábor Ronkay & László Ronkay correspondence herein: Sarah Saadain, Natural History Museum Vienna, A-1010 Vienna; [email protected]

In May 2017 the Heterocera Press, for size reference (Figs 2, 3). The synonyms and comments will be the Natural History Museum Vien- colour plates are accessible via published in a separate article, due na and the Tyrolean State Museum clicking onto the name of the given to its very large size. One of the published a website listing and il- taxon or using the search function. species mentioned in the website, lustrating the Noctuoidea fauna A taxon can be found by entering Hecatera weissi (Draudt, 1934), of Austria (Fig. 1). The homepage the name (or part of the name) of is new to the Austrian fauna, the contains the taxonomic list of all the genus, species or subspecies short article with the proper data species and a few additional ones in into the field above the checklist. and the morphological compari- square brackets which are expected Genitalia and habitat pictures for son will be published soon. to appear within the Austrian bor- all the taxa will be available in the The website is open access and ders. Altogether the homepage il- future. Furthermore a short bilin- available via the following link: lustrates 730 taxa, four specimens gual (German and English) intro- http://www.entomologia.hu/noc- of each species, in most cases two duction will be added soon. The taust males, two females and wingspan revised checklist with full citations, ■

Figure 1. Website overview, with taxonomic list on the left and search function in the left corner, http:// www.entomologia.hu/ noctaust

Figure 2. Catocala fraxini (Linnaeus, 1758) colour plates. Figure 3. Panchrysia v-argenteum (Esper, 1798) colour pla- Males in top row, females below. tes. Males in top row, females below.

No. 59 June 2017 37 Rhodostrophia vibicaria (Clerck, 1759) (Geometridae: Sterrhinae): recent larval data from the Maritime Alps (province Cuneo, Italy) Gareth Edward King, Ashburton, Devon TQ13 7FE, United Kingdom; [email protected]

King & Estébanez González (2015) rale Ginepro di Fenecia, which is Acknowledgements detailed seven larvae of Rhodostro- an outlying portion of the same My most grateful thanks to Luca Giraudo, phia vibicaria (Clerck, 1759) taken national park further south-east- Servizio Conservazione e Gestione Natu- in May 2010 and 2011 in the Mari- wards down the river Gesso valley. ralistica (Entraque) at the Maritime Alps time Alps national park (Figs 1, 2), In our previous paper (op. cit.) we national park for providing the neces- on a return field trip in April 2017 mentioned the possibility that a sary permit and to Félix Javier Estébanez (two days and three nights only) a nearby polygonale Rumex scutatus González for one of the images taken of further six larvae were collected on could well be an undocumented this species’ larva. 10.iv.17 (third and fourth instars) larval host plant; it would appear in the river Meris valley, Sant’Ana to the case that Oxyria digyna is Bibliography di Valdieri (frazione di Valdie- another unrecorded food plant for Hausmann, A. 2004. Sterrhinae in ri, province Cuneo, N44°24'91.5 this moth with this recent data of Hausmann, A. (ed.), The Geometrid E007°30'69.8, 1,239m). All exam- eleven larvae being collected in its Moths of Europe, 2, 600 pp, Apollo Books, ples were collected in the vicinity of vicinity. Hausmann (2004) cites Denmark. their food plant Oxyria digyna (Po- Polygonales generically as a larval King, G. E. & Viejo Montesinos, J. L. lygonaceae) resting on dry stems pabulum. 2012. Las larvas del género Idaea Treits- of bracken on a scree slope fully This most recent field trip did chke, 1825 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geome- exposed to sunlight. In early Sep- not yield more than five geometrid tridae), nuevos datos sobre su morfología tember 2008 (1, 2.ix.08) five larvae, species collected as larvae (with y biología. Graellsia, 68 (2): 249–262. which at the time were misidenti- taxonomic verifications still to be King, G. E. & González-Estébanez, F. J. fied (http://www.atbi.eu/mercan- made) despite searches for larvae 2015. Geometridae larvae collected in the tour-marittime/?q=node/13&tree_ in daylight hours as well as at night Maritime Alps National Park (district of s=2184), but which can now be (further details of methodology in Valdieri (Cuneo, Italy), 2008–11, with a verified as being of this taxon, King & Viejo Montesinos 2012 and description of the larvae of two species in were taken in almost exactly the King & Estébanez González 2015). the Gnophiini Pierce, 1914 (Insecta: Lep- same conditions: a scree slope in All material will eventually be de- idoptera; Geometridae). Zoosystema, 37 proximity to Oxyria digyna, but on posited in the Natural Sciences (4): 621–631. this occasion in the Riserva Natu- Museum of Turin. ■

Figure 1. Rhodostrophia vibicaria L5; 29.V.2011, between labi- Figure 2. Rhodostrophia vibicaria L5; 2.V.2010, San Lorenzo fraz. ate and Rumex scutatus, Lago della rovina (1,546 m), Sant’Ana di Valdieri (850m) (Photo: F. J. González-Estébanez). di Valdieri (Photo: G. E. King).

38 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica Search of material of Evergestis nomadalis (Lederer, 1870) Richard Mally, University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collections, Bergen, Norway; [email protected]

For an ongoing revision, we are in cies resembles E. africalis (Guenée, the quality of the DNA in the spec- search of material of Evergestis no- 1854), and both might co-occur in imen. madalis (Lederer, 1870). The spe- the Middle East. The wing macula- If you should have material of E. cies was described from a single tion of E. nomadalis is rather vari- nomadalis that you would like to specimen, collected in 1869 by Mr able, and the species might repre- provide for our study or you have Haberbauer in the mountain vil- sent a complex of several species. further questions, then please get lage of Hadschyabad in the Gorgan We intend to incorporate genet- in contact with Josep Ylla (josep. county of Iran (Fig. 1). The species ic data into our study. Therefore, [email protected]) and/or Richard is found in a wide area, and we we are particularly in search of Mally ([email protected]). We have investigated old museum ma- specimens that have been collected are grateful for any contribution of terial from Italy, Greece, Turkey, in the last 15 years and were stored specimens of this species. Iran, Lebanon, Sinai, Crimea, Ka- dry since then, ideally without ■ zakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang softening the specimens in a re- Province in NW China. The spe- laxing jar as this is detrimental to

Figure 1. Holotype of Evergestis nomadalis (Lederer, 1870) at the Natural History Museum Berlin.

No. 59 June 2017 39 Request for Lymantria dispar specimens Michel Cusson, Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor (Biochemistry, U. Laval), Laurentian Forestry Centre Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada, Stn. Ste. Foy Quebec, Quebec, Canada; [email protected]

Dear lepidopterists, that are either not represented or Someone from my research group poorly represented in our collec- could send you a pheromone trap I’m contacting you as I’m cur- tion. And this is where you may be that you could hang near your rently involved in a large-scale able to help. place of work or your home this research project on the gypsy summer; you would also be pro- moth, Lymantria dispar, funded There are two ways in which you vided with the packaging material by Genome Canada (https://www. could help: needed for shipping the moths to genomecanada.ca/en/biosurveil- – You or a colleague/organization us at the end of the summer. lance-alien-forest-enemies-bi- you know in your region may have osafe), where we are assembling a been monitoring/collecting gypsy I sincerely hope you will be able to contemporary collection of gypsy moths in pheromone traps over the participate in this important insect moth specimens (i.e., collected < past few years; collection effort, using one of the 5 yrs ago) from different locations – if you could provide me with col- two above options. across its range in North America, lected material (dry moths; ideally Europe, North Africa and Asia. 20 or more) or I look forward to your reply! These will subsequently be used for – provide me with the email of DNA extraction and population your colleagues, I would contact Sincere thanks and best wishes, genomics studies. them in the hope that they can Michel Cusson We already have a decent collec- share some of the samples they al- ■ tion, but we would like to acquire ready have or those that they will additional samples from locations be collecting this coming summer.

Chers lépidoptéristes, – Si vous (ou des collègues/colla- ler cet été dans votre région. Nous borateurs) avez utilisé des pièges vous fournirions aussi le matériel Si je vous contacte aujourd’hui, à phéromone pour la collecte de d’emballage nécessaire pour l’expé- c’est que je suis présentement im- spongieuses au cours des cinq der- dition des papillons à la fin de l’été. pliqué dans un projet de recherche nières années (ou que vous pré- à grande échelle sur la spongieuse, voyez en utiliser cet été), J’espère sincèrement qu’il vous sera Lymantria dispar, financé par – vous pourrez peut-être nous possible de participer à cette cam- Génome Canada (https://www. fournir quelques spécimens pro- pagne d’échantillonnage en utili- genomecanada.ca/fr/biosurveil- venant de ces collectes (idéalement sant l’une ou l’autre des deux op- lance-des-especes-exotiques-enva- 20 ou plus); tions présentées ci-dessus. hissantes-biosafe). Nous tentons – s’il s’agit de collègues, nous ap- de constituer une importante col- précierions recevoir leur adresse Au plaisir de vous lire! lection contemporaine de spon- email. gieuses (i.e., papillons récoltés au Cordialement, cours des cinq dernières années) Quelqu’un de mon équipe de re- Michel Cusson provenant de différents sites à cherche pourrait aussi vous faire ■ travers son aire de répartition en parvenir un ou des pièges à phé- Amérique du Nord, en Europe, en romone que vous pourriez instal- Afrique du Nord et en Asie. Ces spécimens seront éventuellement utilisés pour en extraire l’ADN et pour réaliser des études de géno- mique des populations. Bien que notre collection soit déjà assez bien garnie, nous sou- haitons acquérir des échantillons additionnels de sites qui ne sont pas bien représentés dans cette col- lection. Et c’est là que vous pouvez nous donner un coup de main. Vous pouvez nous aider de l’une ou l’autre des deux façons sui- vantes: Figure 1. Lymantria dispar female (Photo: RNCan)

40 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica University of Molise (Italy) is coordinator of an EU project called MAINBIOSYS (2013–2016), in cooperation with Ethiopian and Ugandan universities Pasquale Trematerra, Department S.A.V.A. Univ. Molise Edificio Facoltà di Agraria, I-86100 Campobasso, Italy; [email protected]

MAINBIOSYS plans to transfer with the development of Biofarm- In 1973, the main valley sites research methodology capacities ing demonstration actions; to en- consisted of a series of spurs sep- in order to increase quality of the hance the university's capacity to arated by steep sided tributary university's applied research on train competent and professional streams, with cultivation down to Biofarm System issues or to en- experts in sustainable agriculture; about 1600m in the Chello area hance the university's capacity to to establish a research network be- and scrub-woodland down to the train competent and professional tween universities in the African edge of the valley floor. Between experts in sustainable agriculture. countries and with EU universities. 1973 and 1979, cultivation extend- Complying with both national In that context and with the ed down these slopes almost to development strategies and EU aim of continuing the lepidopte- the valley floor. In the Limu Shay sustainable development policies ro-faunistic studies of Ethiopia, area cultivation was much more and coherently with the economic colleagues of the University of intensive and had already reached structure of national systems, agri- Molise (Italy), Pasquale Tremater- onto the valley floor in a number cultural activities and, in that, en- ra, Andrea Sciarretta, Marco Col- of places by 1973. In both areas the vironmentally friendly production acci and Francesco Parisi, realized steep slopes of the tributary valleys practices have to be enhanced in four entomological expeditions, and minor scarps were covered order to promote virtuous sustain- the last of which organized in Ethi- with dense forest. There were also able growth processes and improve opia in November 2016 (Fig. 1), a number of isolated steep-sid- socioeconomic conditions of pop- leading to Wellega Zone, Didessa ed hills at the end of spurs in the ulation. River, 1300 m (Hausmann et al. Chello area covered with sparse Specific objectives were: to 2014, 2016; Razowski & Tremater- scrub-woodland, previously used transfer research methodology ra 2010, 2012). for extensive grazing and fuel wood collection. The valley floor was covered with open grassland, previously used for grazing, and underlain by heavy cracked clays (vertisols), generally too heavy for cultivation. Intact gallery forest oc- curred along the main river.

Bibliography Razowski J. & Trematerra P. 2010. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Ethiopia. J. Entomol. Acarol. Res., Ser. II, 42 (2), 47–79. Razowski J. & Trematerra P. 2012. Tor- tricidae (Lepidoptera) from Ethiopia, 2. J. Entomol. Acarol. Res., 44, 37–41. Hausmann A., Parisi F. & Sciarretta A. 2014. The geometrid moths of Ethiopia I: Tribes Pseudoterpnini and Comibaenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometri- nae). Zootaxa, 3768 (4), 460–468. Hausmann A., Sciarretta A. & Parisi F. 2016. The Geometrinae of Ethiopia II: Tribus Hemistolini, genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometri- nae). Zootaxa, 4065 (1), 1–63. ■

Figure 1. Impressions from the Ethiopia excursion in November 2016 (Photo: Pasquale Trematerra).

No. 59 June 2017 41 Invitation to the 10th International Congress of Forum Herbulot in Stuttgart (Germany) Hossein Rajaei, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany; [email protected] Forum Herbulot is a well-known Taxonomy, a multidisciplinary ap- grams (city of Tübingen, Hohen- international scientific commu- proach to answer complicated tax- zollern Castle and Black Forest). nity with research focused on ge- onomic questions”. There are several travel-grants for ometrid moths. This congress will start with an students. We encourage students to Hossein Rajaei (Stuttgart, Ger- ice-breaking German barbecue, we apply for these grants. many) and Axel Hausmann (Mu- will have the possibility to present nich, Germany) would like to wel- new results from our research on More information will be an- come you to the 10th International geometrids and other Lepidoptera, nounced on the homepage of Fo- Congress of Forum Herbulot in the there will be much time for discus- rum Herbulot: State Museum of Natural History sions and for ‘social networking’. http://www.herbulot.de. You my Stuttgart (Fig. 1) from June 11 to The congress will be closed with contact us via: [email protected] 16, 2018. It is entitled “Integrative two attractive sightseeing pro- ■

Figure 1. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (Germany).

42 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica Feza Can Cengiz, Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Plant Protection Department, Entomology Section, 31034 Antakya, Hatay, Turkey; [email protected]

Dear friends and colleagues, centers and life style of inhabitants. on May 1st when they will be able You have lots of options to visit to register and check in at the hotel. The XVIth International Symposi- such as the Clock Tower in Konak The scientific programme starts on um on Zygaenidae will be held on Square, the Old Castle in Kadif- May 2nd and will include lectures May 1–5, 2018 in İzmir, Turkey. ekale, Asansör (Elevator), from with special emphasis on ecology, İzmir is a metropolitan city in the which you could see the bay on a biology, genetics, distribution, en- western extremity of Anatolia and hill, tens of cafes, bars and clubs demism, taxonomy and conserva- the third most populous city in in Alsancak and Karşıyaka, where tion. Moreover, the results of field- Turkey, after İstanbul and Ankara you can see georgeous sunsets for work illustrated by photographs of (Fig. 1). chill out, Kemeraltı Bazaar, the lift living Zygaenidae and their biot- Hosting Jewish migrants from in Narlıdere, Mother Mary’s House opes are also very welcome and in Spain and Portugal, Levantines – Ephesus Ancient city and Şir- fact are strongly recommended as (Italian merchants) during the ince traditional village in Selçuk, additional subjects. Ottoman period, and located in a touristic locations such as Foça huge bay by the Aegean Sea, the (Phokia), Çeşme, Urla, Seferihisar Sincerely, port city İzmir is different from and Dikili. Feza Can Cengiz the other traditional cities in Tur- It is expected that candidates at- ■ key with its big streets, shopping tending the symposium will arrive

Figure 1. Impressions from the city of İzmir (Turkey).

No. 59 June 2017 43 The Second North American Microlepidopterists' Meeting in Tucson in 2017 Vazrick Nazari, Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa ON K1A 0C6; [email protected]

The Second North American Mi- versity of Arizona Insect collection or during one of the blacklighting crolepidopterists’ Meeting will be (Fig. 1), which will be open and trips being organized for the 2017 held at University of Arizona on accessible to all participants. Infor- LepSoc Meeting. August 2nd, 2017 in Tucson, Arizo- mation on the venue is provided There is no registration fee for na. The meeting is being held one below. Abstracts from the meeting the meeting, however an RSVP is day after to the 66th Annual Meet- will be published either together required. If you would like to at- ing of The Lepidopterists’ Society with the LepSoc programme and tend, give a talk, present a poster, in Tucson. abstracts or as a separate publica- or have any questions please con- The Microlepidopterists’ Meet- tion. tact [email protected]. ing will include both oral and post- This is a great opportunity for er presentations and workshops both amateurs and professionals We hope to see you in Tucson af- led by invited microlepidoptera ex- interested or specializing in micro- ter the 2017 Lepidopterists’ Society perts. There will be both morning lepidoptera to meet and greet, dis- Meeting! and afternoon sessions with plenty cuss new ideas, share research, and of time to interact with fellow mi- examine or exchange specimens. The Microlepidopterists’ Meeting crolepidopterists and browse the There will also be the opportunity Organizing Committee (Vazrick collection. The meeting is free of for collecting either directly after Nazari, David Bettman, and Todd charge and will be held at the Uni- the Microlepidopterists’ Meeting Gilligan)

Figure 1. The University of Arizona Insect Collection is located near the center of University of Arizona campus, Department of Entomology, fourth floor of the Forbes Building, Rm 410, 1140 E. South Campus Dr., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719. Short- term metered parking is available on University Ave. There are also several parking garages near the Forbes Building. For more information about University of Arizona Insect Collection, please visit http://www.uainsectcollection.com

44 Newsletter of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica 8th “The Biology of Butterflies Conference” 2018 in India – First Announcement Thomas Simonsen, Natural History Museum Aarhus, Denmark; [email protected]

The International Conferencesal forum for latest discoveries and on the Biology of Butterflies are to exchange news in these research international gatherings, organ- areas. ized every four years, of primarily The next (8th) conference will be professional biologists who study held in Bangalore, India, on June evolutionary biology, behaviour, 11–14, 2018, and is organized by ecology, systematics, biogeogra- the National Centre for Biological phy, genetics, developmental biol- Sciences (NCBS, Bangalore) and tific programme, registration, and ogy, and biodiversity conservation, the Indian Institute of Science Edu- symposia, will be provided shortly with butterflies and moths as their cation and Research (IISER-Thiru- at http://www.biologyofbutterflies. focal study organisms. This is an vananthapuram). Details about the org. excellent academic and profession- conference such as the full scien- ■

VIth Meeting on Neotropical Lepidoptera: Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Luis E. Parra, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción Concepción, Chile; [email protected]

The VIth ELEN will take place from January 8–12, 2018, in the Facul- tad de Ciencias Naturales y Ocean- ográficas at the University of Con- cepción, in Concepción, Chile, 500 kilometers south of Santiago Costs: 250 USD for researchers, 150 USD for postgraduate stu- dents, 100 USD for undergraduate students The deadline for abstract sub- mission is September 30, 2017. For more information please visit http://www.elen6.com

Figure 1. Maeandragonaria valentina Figure 2. Araucaria araucana (Molina) K. Koch, 1869 in Sector Corralco, with Lonqui- Butler, 1893 (Geometridae) may Volcano in the background (region of Araucanía, Chile)

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