Entomologica romanica 24: 41-42, 2020 ISSN 2601-7105 online / ISSN 1224-2594 print / doi: 10.24193/entomolrom.24.7

Corrigendum to: orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775) (, , ) found again in Romania after more than 150 years

Levente Székely & Vlad Dincă

A recent study documenting a new record of Therefore, previous references (e.g. Rákosy et al. (Fabricius, 1775) from 2003) to the study of Mann (1866) with regard to T. south-eastern Romania (Székely and Dincă 2020) orichalcea in Romania, are correct. mentioned that this species was not recorded from Although not extensive, the material collected northern Dobrogea by Mann (1866). by Malinovsky also includes other species that are However, although T. orichalcea is not listed in the uncommon in Dobrogea and/or Romania, such as main systematic list of Mann (1866), on the last page Ocnogyna parasita (Hübner, 1790), Diachrysia of the publication (page 360), the species is mentioned zosimi (Hübner, 1822), Schinia cardui (Hübner, as “Plusia orichalcea F.”. Mann mentioned that this 1790), Lycia zonaria ([Denis & Schiffermüller], species, together with a few others, was identified by 1775) etc. (Mann 1866). him based on material provided by Malinovsky, who Below we provide an updated map with records of collected Lepidoptera in the surroundings of Tulcea. T. orichalcea from Romania (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Records of Thysanoplusia orichalcea in Romania. Black square: nineteenth century record from Săcărâmb, Hunedoara county (Fuss 1850); black triangle: nineteenth century record from the surroundings of Tulcea, Tulcea county (Mann 1866); black dot: record from Enisala Fortress, Tulcea county (24.VII.2020) (Székely and Dincă 2020). References Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien 16: 321-360. Fuss C. (1850) Verzeichnis der bis jetzt in Siebenbürgen Rákosy L., Goia M. and Kovács Z. (2003) Catalogul aufgefundenen Lepidopteren. [Checklist of Lepidopterelor României / Verzeichnis der the Lepidoptera found in Transylvania so far]. Schmetterlinge Rumäniens. [The Catalogue of Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Romanian Lepidoptera]. Cluj-Napoca: Societatea Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt 1: Lepidopterologică Română. 54-64. Székely L. and Dincă V. (2020) Thysanoplusia orichalcea Mann J. (1866) Aufzählung der im Jahre 1865 in der (Fabricius, 1775) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Plusiinae) Dobrudscha gesammelten Schmetterlinge. [List found again in Romania after more than 150 years. of Lepidoptera collected in Dobrogea in 1865]. Entomologica Romanica 24: 29-31.

Levente Székely Vlad Dincă Bd. George Moroianu 29, Săcele, Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, 505600, Jud. Brașov, Romania University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, E-mail: [email protected] Oulu, 90014, Finland E-mail: [email protected]

Received: 30.10.2020 Accepted: 15.11.2020 Published online: 30.11.2020 Published: 31.12.2020 Online article number: ER24202007 doi: 10.24193/entomolrom.24.7

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