Phegea 26 – 1998

Phegea 27 – 1999

Phegea 28 – 2000

Phegea 27 – nummer 1 (1 maart 1999)

Olivier A., Puplesiene J., van der Poorten D., De Prins W. & Wiemers M.: Revision of some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspicus group with description of a new species form Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Phegea 27(1): 1–24.
Current problems with the delimitation of supraspecific groups within the subgenus Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) are dealt with: the main reason therefore lies in the great variability of the species-group taxa themselves and the sometimes minute differences among these, together with the seemingly complete lack of useful morphological characters allowing any cladistic analysis. In the present study, the authors treat some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspica (Heyne, [1895]) species group, i.e. P. (A.) guezelmavi sp. n., P. (A.) theresiae Schurian, van Oorschot & van den Brink, 1992 sp. rev., P. (A.) larseni (Carbonell, 1994) stat. rev., P. (A.) elbursicus (Forster, 1956) and P. (A.) damonides (Staudinger, 1899).
A karyological study of material of the collective species P. (A.) theresiae revealed that topotypical material (Turkey, Adana province, vic. Saimbeyli) has n > 59, while material from Konya province, vic. Taskent, has n = 41–42 and a different karyotype. On these grounds, as well as on small, though inconstant, morphological differences between both populations, the latter one is described as a new species. For the Lebanese taxon P. (A.) larseni, n = 25 was confirmed in two specimens examined: its karyotype is described and figured for the first time. After study of the lectotype ♂ of P. (A.) damonides and a further 3♂, 2♀ paralectotypes, deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as well as a single ♂ in coll. Vlaamse Lepidoptera Collectie Antwerpen, and comparison with series of P. (A.) ninae (Forster, 1956) and of P. (A.) elbursicus, conspecificity with the former taxon can be discounted. On the other hand, P. (A.) damonides and P. (A.) elbursicus look strikingly similar but, as the chromosome number and karyotype of P. (A.) damonides remain unknown, any speculation on the conspecificity of these two taxa are premature.
Kandul & Lukhtanov (1997) and Lukhtanov et al. (1998) have suggested that P. (A.) dama (Staudinger, 1892) and P. (A.) theresiae could possibly be subspecies because of their apparently similar chromosome number and their allopatric distribution. This hypothesis of conspecificity is invalidated here, as both taxa are in fact sympatric, differ markedly in external morphology and have a different chromosome number. It appears that, within the subgenus Agrodiaetus, speciation is often accompanied by rather radical changes in chromosome number and karyotype. Chromosome numbers and karyotypes offer quite reliable taxonomic characters for the identification of distinct species. On the contrary, there is no current evidence for any usefulness of these features for phylogenetic reconstructions.
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De Prins W.: Correcties en aanvullingen op de "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium".
Phegea 27(1): 25–28.
Enkele verbeteringen aan de "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium" (De Prins 1998) worden voorgesteld. Heel wat nieuwe provinciewaarnemingen worden vermeld alsook twee nieuwe soorten voor de Belgische fauna: Coleophora betulella (Heinemann & Wocke, 1877) en Agrotis trux (Hübner, [1824]).
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Troukens W.: Mierkevers aan de westrand van Brussel (Coleoptera: Cleridae).
Phegea 27(1): 29–31.
Gedurende de laatste jaren werden vier soorten Cleridae waargenomen aan de westrand van Brussel: Tillus elongatus (Linnaeus), Thanisimus formicarius (Linnaeus), Clerus mutillarius Fabricius en Korynetes caeruleus (Degeer). Van C. mutillarius zijn slechts twee andere waarnemingen uit België bekend.
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Slot J.: Een witte vorm van Opisthograptis luteolata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).
Phegea 27(1): 33.
Een afwijkende, witte vorm van Opisthograptis luteolata (Linnaeus, 1758) werd op 28.viii.1998 waargenomen te Clavel in het Aostadal in Noordwest-Italië.
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Slot J.: Een late vangst van Xestia baja ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Phegea 27(1): 33–34.
Op 23.ix.1998 werd een exemplaar van Xestia baja ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) op smeer verzameld te Bornia, gemeente Driebergen (Nederland). Dit is een erg late waarneming van deze soort.
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Phegea 27 – nummer 2 (1 juni 1999)

Vanholder B.: Trekvlinders in 1998, vijftiende jaarverslag.
Phegea 27(2): 37–57.
Rapport over de trekvlinders waargenomen in 1998. Een tabel met informatie over deze trekvlinders per decade wordt gegeven.
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ten Hagen W.: Bemerkungen zur Biologie von Arctia festiva arafati (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).
Phegea 27(2): 59–64.
Freilandbeobachtungen zur Biologie von Arctia festiva arafati (de Freina, 1997) werden mitgeteilt. Bei einer relativ problemlosen ex ovo-Zucht wurden Sommer- und Winterdiapause der Raupen zu einer einzigen Frasspause zusammengefasst. Die Falter schlüpften bereits im September des gleichen Jahres. Die Präimaginalstadien werden abgebildet.
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Henderickx H.: Microbisium suecicum: een nieuwe soort voor de Belgische fauna (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones).
Phegea 27(2): 65–67.
Drie adulte exemplaren en een deutonimf van Microbisium suecicum Lohmander, 1945 werden gevonden te Flemalle-Haute (Liège) in mei 1998. Deze soort wordt hier voor het eerst uit België vermeld.
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Van de Weyer G. & Dils J.: Contribution to the knowledge of the Syrphidae from Greece (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Phegea 27(2): 69–77.
In the period 1992–1998 Syrphidae were collected in several localities in Greece and the results are presented in this paper. In total 144 species are recorded, of which 63 are new for the Greek fauna.
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Olivier A., Puplesiene J., van der Poorten D., De Prins W. & Wiemers M.: Additions and corrections to "Revision of some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspicus group with description of a new species from Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)".
Phegea 27(2): 79.
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Phegea 27 – nummer 3 (1 september 1999)

Coutsis J. G., Puplesiene J. & De Prins W.: The chromosome number and karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii and Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) aroaniensis from Greece (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Phegea 27(3): 81–84.
The number of chromosomes in Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii pelopi (Brown, 1976) is n = 90 and the karyotype is identical to the one of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii (Freyer, 1830). The synonymy of both names (cf. Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener 1995) is herewith confirmed. The number of chromosomes in Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) aroaniensis (Brown, 1976) is n = 48, clearly different from the one in Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) alcestis (Zerny, 1932) (n = 19–22), which proves that both taxa are specifically disctinct.
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Gielis C.: The Pterophoridae of Nepal (Lepidoptera).
Phegea 27(3): 85–91.
The material collected by Mr. M. Fibiger in Nepal in the summer of 1996 contained three species of Pterophoridae new to science: Amblyptilia fibigeri sp. n., A. skoui sp. n. and Platyptilia gandaki sp. n. These species are here described and figured.
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Bettag E. & Bläsius R.: Über den Status von Dipsosphecia megillaeformis var. tunetana (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae).
Phegea 27(3): 93–101.
Die Autoren geben der Subspezies tunetana Le Cerf von Bembecia albanensis (Rebel, 1918) Artstatus. Bembecia tunetana (Le Cerf, 1920) wird gegen nahestehende Arten abgegrenzt. Die weiblichen Genitalstrukturen werden erstmals abgebildet; Raupennahrung, Lebensraum und Verbreitung der Art werden vorgestellt.
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Bosselaers J.: A new Uroctea from the Jordan desert (Araneae: Oecobiidae).
Phegea 27(3): 103–113.
Uroctea hashemitorum sp. n. (Araneae, Oecobiidae) is described from a male specimen collected in a desert location in the neighbourhood of Wadi Rum, Jordan. The new species is figured and a cladistic analysis of eight Uroctea species, based on male palpal characteristics, has been performed. The new species belongs to the "sahelian-sudanian" group of Uroctea species.
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Bink F.: Schoon schip maken (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae Satyrinae).
Phegea 27(3): 115–116.
Na de publicatie van het boek "Dagvlinders in Vlaanderen" (Maes & Van Dyck 1999) bleken enkele verbeteringen in de "Ecologische Atlas" (Bink 1992) nodig betreffende de informatie over Hipparchia statilinus in Vlaanderen.
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Phegea 27 – nummer 4 (1 december 1999)

Henderickx H. & Vets V.: Chernes hahni, een nieuwe pseudoschorpioen voor België en Luxemburg (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones).
Phegea 27(4): 117–121.
Tot op heden werden slechts twee soorten Chernes uit België vermeld: C. cimicoides (Fabricius, 1793) en C. vicinus (Beier, 1932). Recent werden enkele exemplaren van Chernes hahni (Koch, 1839) gevonden op verschillende plaatsen in België. De verspreiding van deze soort in West-Europa wordt besproken.
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Coutsis J. G.: Butterflies and Skippers from the Greek island of Kíthira, late April and early June, 1999 (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea).
Phegea 27(4): 123–126.
During two visits of two days each, the author observed 27 species of butterflies on the Greek island of Kíthira. In total 35 species of butterflies have been reported from this island, a rather small number taking into consideration the rich fauna of the nearby Pelopónnisos, the big area of the island and its lush vegetation.
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Olivier A.: On the publication dates of the "Versuch einer Monographie der europäischen Schmetterlingsarten Thecla, Polyomattus [sic], Lycaena, Nemeobius. Als Beitrag zur Schmetterlingskunde" by Paul Bernhard Gerhard (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Phegea 27(4): 127–140.
In the middle of the 19th Century, a series of Lycaenid butterfly species-group taxa was described almost simultaneously by Christian Friedrich Freyer in his "Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde mit Abbildungen nach der Natur" ([1831]–1858), by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in his "Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, zugleich als Text, Revision und Supplement zu Jakob Hübner's Sammlung euorpäischer Schmetterlinge" (1843–1856) and by Paul Bernhard Gerhard in his "Versuch einer Monographie der europäischern Schmetterlingsarten: Thecla, Polyomattus [sic], Lycaena, Nemeobius. Als Beitrag zur Schmetterlingskunde" (1850–1853). In the present publication, the first of a planned series of four, the establishment of the exact dates of publication of the various instalments ("Hefte") of Gerhard's work will be attempted. After a short biographical sketch of Paul Bernhard Gerhard, whereby an emphasis is placed on his relations to other collectors and dealers, the dating of the ten Hefte, as accurately as possible, is performed with the aid of external sources, as well as a brief evaluation of the immediate impact of his work on the contemporaneous lepidopterological world. Finally, a chronological list of nominal taxa described, figured or mentioned in his work, is presented.
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Schoolmeesters P. & Van den Heuvel R.: A new Aphodius species of the subgenus Sinaphodius from Nepal (Coleoptera, Aphodiidae, Aphodiinae).
Phegea 27(4): 141–143.
The new species Aphodius chitwanensis sp. n. is described from Nepal.
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Slivov A. & Abadjiev S.: Two Pseudochazara species, new for Bulgaria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae Satyrinae).
Phegea 27(4): 145–146.
After studying the Lepidoptera collections housed in the Institute of Zoology (Sofia), two species of Pseudochazara are added to the fauna of Bulgaria: P. geyeri (Herrich-Schäffer, [1846]) and P. graeca (Staudinger, 1870).
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Troukens W.: Overwinterende vlinders in een tunnel (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Noctuidae).
Phegea 27(4): 147–148.
82 exemplaren van Triphosa dubitata (Linnaeus, 1758) en enkele exemplaren van Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758) werden op 11 december 1998 geteld in een grotachtige tunnel te Nismes (België, Namur).
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