Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 151–-164, 1995

Title: Conservational aspects of bird–vegetation relationships in riparian forests along the river Danube: a multivariate study

Authors: C. Moskát and T. Fuisz

Authors' address: Ecological Research Group, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary, moskat@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu

Abstract: Vegetational structure and bird communities were sampled in willow (Salix), poplar (Populus), and mixed riparian forests along the River Danube, in the Szigetköz region, N Hungary. Multivariate ordination methods were applied to show bird-vegetation relationships: the principal component analysis (PCA) for deriving vegetational components, the canonical variate analysis (CVA) to evaluate separation of the forest types based both on the birds and the vegetational structure, and multivariate plexus analysis (MPA) to show relationships between a set of individual bird species and vegetational components. The willow forest seems to be a threatened habitat type in the Szigetköz region because of the construction of the Bõs–Gabcikovo hydroelectric power station on the Danube. The willow forest has the most unique bird community in the area, whereas the fast growing hybrid poplar forests have a bird community with greater species abundances than that of a typical temperate deciduous forest. The importance of methodological issues in wildlife-habitat ordination is also discussed.

Key words: bird community, multivariate analysis, bird–vegetation relationships, riparian habitat, habitat alterations, River Danube

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 165–-182, 1995

Title: On the morphology and taxonomy of the Asian leeches (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae, Salifidae)

Author: H. Nesemann

Author's address: Department for Hydrobiology, University for Agriculture, Forestry and Landscape Management Fishery and Aquaculture, Max-Emanuel-Str. 17, A–1180 Vienna, Austria

Abstract: Erpobdelliformes from the two families Erpobdellidae and Salifidae from Japan, China and Nepal are described. Erpobdella testacea is recorded from China. The Japanese Erpobdella octoculata is an overlooked separate species. This leech is placed into another genus under the name Dina japonica (new combination). Barbronia weberi, B. weberi formosana and B. assiuti differ slightly by their form and geographical isolation. Based on new material from the terra typica (Japan, Honshu), Odontobdella blanchardi is reinvestigated. Consequently, one different species has to be separated: O. polaneci sp. n. from Japan (Shikoku). A new leech Sinobdella kinzelbachi, the type-species of Sinobdella gen. n., from China can be distinguished from all other Asian Salifidae by the stylets and asymmetrical stylet pockets.

Key words: Hirudinea, Erpobdellidae, Salifidae, Sinobdella gen. n., Asia

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 185–208, 1995

Title: Seven new genera of the Neotropical Lauxaniidae (Diptera)

Authors: L. Papp and Vera C. Silva

Authors' addresses: Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary, lpapp@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis – UNESP, Av Dom Antonio 2100, 19.800–000 Assis, SP, Brasil

Abstract: Seven new genera of the Neotropical Lauxaniidae are described; all the type-species are also new and described here: Bacilloflagellomera gen. n. (type-species B. pectinicornis sp. n.), Baliopteridion gen. n. (type-species B. brevitarsus sp. n.), Gibbolauxania gen. n. (type-species G. elegans sp. n.), Minilauxania gen. n. (type-species M. bulbifacies sp. n.), Paraphysoclypeus gen. n. (type-species P. nigropleura sp. n.), Pseudominettia gen. n. (type-species P. platypeza sp. n.), Tauridion gen. n. (type-species T. shewelli sp. n.). With 37 original figures.

Key words: Lauxaniidae, new genera, taxonomy, morphology, Neotropical region

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 211–235, 1995

Title: Neotropical Polyommatine diversity and affinities. I. relationships of the higher taxa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Authors: Zs. Bálint and K. Johnson

Authors' addresses: Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary, balint@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu
Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024–5192, USA

Abstract: In light of recent publications increasing known species diversity among Neotropical Polyommatini by some 75%, the admixture and affinities of higher categories comprising the Tribe are reexamined. Included data falsify two old generalities concerning the Neotropical polyommatine fauna: low diversity and principally Holarctic origins. Historical circumstances previously impeding accurate assessment of this fauna are reviewed. Polyommatine higher categories of Fiedler 1991 (after Eliot 1973, e.g. the polyommatine "Sections") are reconfigured according to current knowledge. Eliot's Polyommatus Section was polyphyletic and is reformed to include, in the Neotropics, only Pseudolucia, Plebejus, Paralycaeides and Madeleinea. Of the redefined Sections, two (totalling eight genera) are entirely Neotropical with three (Eldoradina, Itylos, Nabokovia) clearly having arisen from lowland Neotropical ancestral assemblages (two with significant Caribbean elements). Of the others, one Section (Leptotes and allies) occurring in the Neotropical Realm (as Leptotes) has African and oceanic affinities; two sections (Lycaenopsis and allies, Polyommatus and allies) each contain an autochthonous South American infratribe with sister taxa either in the Holarctic or Holartic/Oriental Realms. Both autochthonous South American infratribes of these Sections (Pseudolucia assemblage, an undescribed Lycaenopsina assemblage) contain elements reflecting a vicariance between south Andean and austral elements and a montane southeast Brazilian entity. Only the genera Paralycaeides and Madeleinea show sister genus relations principally with the Holarctic (e.g. with Plebejus). These data suggest a greater antiquity for Neotropical Polyommatini than previously assumed. Synoptic species lists of all the Sections occurring in the Neotropical Realm are addended.

Key words: Andes, Patagonia, biogeography, disjucnt distribution, diversity, sampling error, Polyommatiti, sections

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 235–250, 1995

Title: On the taxonomy of the genera Himalistra Hacker & Ronkay, 1993, and Estagrotis Nye, 1975 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Authors: M. Hreblay and L. Ronkay

Authors' addresses: H–2030 Érd, Somfa u. 15, Hungary
Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary, ronkay@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu

Abstract: New taxa of the genera Himalistra (H. dimorpha sp. n. and H. simillima sp. n. from Nepal) and Estagrotis (E. benescripta sp. n., W Nepal; E. benescripta rai ssp. n., E Nepal; E. gemina sp. n., Tibet and E. canescens tibetana ssp. n., Tibet) are described. With 49 figures.

Key words: new species, Himalistra, Estagrotis, Xylenini, Noctuidae, Himalayan region

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 251–282, 1995

Title: Taxonomic studies on the genus Pseudohadena Alphéraky, 1889. Part V. The revision of the genus Pseudohadena s. str.

Authors: L. Ronkay, Z. Varga & Gy. Fábián

Authors' addresses: Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary, ronkay@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu
Zoological Institute, Kossuth Lajos University, H–4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
H–1121 Budapest, József Attila u. 83, Hungary

Abstract: The genus Pseudohadena s. str. is revised, the subgenus Pseudohadena (the P. armata species-group) is re-defined. Pseudopseustis and Jaxartia are considered as subgenera of Pseudohadena; two new genera, Graphantha gen. n. (with two subgenera, Graphantha for the laciniosa-group and Dysgraphhadena subgen. n. for the commoda-group) and Eremohadena for the siri-group are established. Four new species, P. phasmidia sp. n. (Kashmir), P. obsoleta sp. n. (Kashmir), P. arenacea sp. n. (Kazakhstan) and P. (J.) deserticola sp. n. (Turkmenistan) and a new subspecies, P. (J.) evanida psammoxantha ssp. n. are described. With 41 figures and a table.

Key words: Pseudohadena, revision, new genera, subgenera, new species

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41(3), pp. 285–293, 1995

Title: A new subspecies of the Horseshoe bat Rhinolophus macrotis from Pakistan (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae)

Authors: G. Csorba and P. J. J. Bates

Authors' addresses: Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary, csorba@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu
Harrison Zoological Museum, St Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3AQ, UK

Abstract: The description of a population of the Indomalayan species Rhinolophus macrotis from Pakistan, as a new subspecies R. m. topali is given. The new taxon is characterized by its colour, the measurements of the anterior noseleaf and the position of the lower premolars.

Key words: Mammalia, Rhinolophidae, Rhinolophus macrotis, Pakistan, taxonomy