Changes in the Athetis genus
Summary: Taxonomic changes affecting the Athetis genus have been made to the Hungarian species list.
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The changes related to the Athetis genus in the book by Ronkay Gábor, Ronkay László & Varga Zoltán (2024): Magyarország nagylepkéi Harmadik, átdolgozott kiadás - Macrolepidoptera of Hungary Third, revised edition - Fibigeriana Supplement Volume 4 escaped my attention during the processing of the work.
I have now made up for the changes, I made the following modifications:
The izeltlabuak.hu website primarily focuses on arthropods found in Hungary. This entry also deals with Hungarian fauna.
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I synonymized the Athetis lepigone species to the Gracilathetis lepigone species.
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I removed the Gracilathetis lepigone species from the Hungarian species list.
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I transferred the determinations of species previously determined as Athetis lepigone to the Gracilathetis kovacssandori species.
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I synonymized the Athetis hospes species to the Proxenus hospes species.
The changes were made based on the fact that Farkas Sándor pointed out that Athetis lepigone does not occur in our country, which we previously thought it did, and it is identical to Gracilathetis kovacssandori. I am grateful to Sándor for the notification!
Affected species:
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Lepidoptera
- group: Macrolepidoptera
- family: Noctuidae
- genus: Gracilathetis
- species: Gracilathetis kovacssandori
- phylum: Arthropoda
- order: Lepidoptera
- group: Macrolepidoptera
- family: Noctuidae
- genus: Proxenus
- species: Proxenus hospes