Notes of the occurrence in Poland of the rare tineid moth Scardia boletella (Fabricius, 1794) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

Jarosław Bury,Witold Zajda,Roman Zamorski,Tomasz Jaworski,Mariusz Mleczak,Marek Hołowiński

doi:10.3161/00159301ff2014.57.2.131

Abstract

Review of literature data as well as new distributional records of the relict and endangered saproxylic tineid moth Scardia boletella (Fabricius, 1794) in Poland are presented. Unpublished museal data from 1954 to 1963 and own observations from 1988 to 2014, mainly from Bieszczady Mts, East Beskid, Masurian Lake District, Bialowieza Forest and Podlasie are included. The species is recorded for the first time from Lublin Upland.

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The fungus moth Scardia boletella (Fabricius, 1794) is a species belonging to the family Tineidae Latreille, 1810, subfamily Scardiinae Eyer, 1924, and genus Scardia Treitsche, 1830, represented globally by six species (Robinson 2009)
In Asia S. boletella is known from few localities in Siberia and the Russian Far East – in the Minussinsk Region, e.g.: Lake Tiberkul in Krasnoyarsk Krai (Central Siberia), Irkutsk Oblast and the Sayan Mts (Koshantschikov 1923, Zagulajev 1973, Robinson 1986)
The aim of our work is to review the current state of knowledge on the distribution and biology of S. boletella in Poland

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Introduction

The fungus moth Scardia boletella (Fabricius, 1794) is a species belonging to the family Tineidae Latreille, 1810, subfamily Scardiinae Eyer, 1924, and genus Scardia Treitsche, 1830, represented globally by six species (Robinson 2009). In Europe, the distribution area of S. boletella covers 21 countries (Fig. 1) and extends from southern and central parts of Scandinavia and the European part of Russia, through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the northern part of Italy and Greece (Petersen 1957, 1969, Zagulajev 1973, Jalava 1977, Petersen, Gaedike 1979, Aarvik, Mitdgaard 1982, Robinson 1986, Buszko 2004, Laštůvka & Liška 2011, Lesar & Govedič 2010, Pastoralis 2010, Gaedike 2011) This species was recorded from Switzerland at the beginning of the last century (Rebel 1901), but since there is no evidence on its presence in this country. As most of the known locations of S. boletella in Poland are situated in subboreal forests in the north-eastern part of the country or in its south part – in the mountain forests; the distribution pattern of this species is regarded as disjunctive

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