An annotated checklist of the Noctuoidea of Jordan with remarks on ecology, phenology and zoogeography. Part VI. Noctuidae: Acontiinae, Acronictinae, Bagisarinae, Bryophilinae, Condicinae, Dilobinae, Eriopinae, Eustrotiinae, Heliothinae, Metoponiinae, Plu

Vasiliy D. Kravchenko; László Ronkay; Josef Mooser; Wolfgang Speidel; Edita E. Revay; Thomas Witt; Günter C. Müller

Authors

Vasiliy D. Kravchenko The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
László Ronkay Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, H-1431 Hungary
Josef Mooser Seilerbrücklstr. 23, Freising, D-85354 Germany
Wolfgang Speidel Museum Witt, Tengstr. 33, Munich, D-80796 Germany
Edita E. Revay Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, 31905 Israel
Thomas Witt Museum Witt, Tengstr. 33, Munich, D-80796 Germany
Günter C. Müller Department of Parasitology, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University Hadassah-Medical School, Jerusalem, 91120 Israel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-0179

Keywords:

Biodiversity, Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, moths, owlet moths, Jordan, Middle East, distribution, ecology, new records, phenology, zoogeography, checklist

Abstract

Within the framework of the German-Israeli Lepidoptera Fauna of the Levant project during 1998–2010, a list of the presently known species of the Plusiinae (12 species), Acontiinae (10), Bryophilinae (10), Heliothinae (8), Metoponiinae (7), Eustrotiinae (4), Acronictinae (3), Condicinae (3), Psaphidinae (2), Bagisarinae (1), Dilobinae (1), and Eriopinae (1) is presented. Altogether 62 species of these subfamilies have been found in Jordan with 22 of them (35.5%) being new records. High representativeness of species in comparison with the Levant fauna shown for the Acontiinae, Bryophilinae, Metoponiinae and Plusiinae ranging from 66.7–71.4%. The Heliothinae of Jordan are represented by 80% of species found in the Levant. The subfamily Acronictinae represented in Jordan only by 30% of the Levant fauna is substantially impoverished due to the lack of riverine forests, which are uncommon in Jordan. The total fauna of Jordanian Noctuoidea is represented by 364 species.

Cite as: Kravchenko, V. D., Ronkay, L., Mooser, J., Speidel, W., Revay, E. E., Witt, T. & Müller, G. C. 2016. An annotated checklist of the Noctuoidea of Jordan with remarks on ecology, phenology and zoogeography. Part VI. Noctuidae: Acontiinae, Acronictinae, Bagisarinae, Bryophilinae, Condicinae, Dilobinae, Eriopinae, Eustrotiinae, Heliothinae, Metoponiinae, Plusiinae, and Psaphidinae. Israel Journal of Entomology 46: 1–10.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.49640

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