Surveys on the Pyraloidea and Geometridae (Lepidoptera) Fauna of Mount Ararat and its surroundings

Year 2022, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 515 - 532, 31.08.2022

Celalettin Gözüaçık , Kesran Akın , Erdem Seven , Mete Türkoğlu

https://doi.org/10.18185/erzifbed.1023016

Abstract

The present study is carried out between 2017-2019, to determine Pyraloidea and Geometridae fauna of Mount Ararat and its surroundings. The studies are conducted at night with light traps and insect nets during the day. Samples are firstly identified by using their external morphological characteristics and genital structures of taxa are examined when necessary. As a result of the researches, 135 species from Pyraloidea superfamily and 70 species from Geometridae family are determined. Among these taxa, 65 species of Pyraloidea and 41 species of Geometridae are newly discovered in Lepidoptera fauna of Iğdır province. The number of pyraloid species in Iğdır province increased to 217 and the number of geometrid species increased to 118. Information on the new location records and distributions of Ancylodes pallens Ragonot, 1887, Aphyletes nigrisparsella (Ragonot, 1887), Calamotropha paludella (Hübner, [1824]), Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859), Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879, Gymnancyla nomiella (Ragonot, 1887) G. hornigii (Lederer, 1852), Myrlaea mimicralis (Amsel, 1950) and Tephris verruculella (Ragonot, 1887), whose distribution areas are limited in Turkey, are presented.

Keywords

Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Geometridae, Mount Ararat, Turkey

Supporting Institution

Iğdır Üniversitesi, BAP

Project Number

2017-FBE-A01

Thanks

We thank Iğdır University, Scientific Research Projects Unit for support of this study by Project number 2017-FBE-A01.

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