The Plume-Moth Fauna (Lepidoptera,Pterophoridae) of the Republic of Belarus

Entomological Review - A list of 35 species of the family Pterophoridae from the Republic of Belarus is provided based on examination of the collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy...     

Contributions to the knowledge of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of the Republic of Belarus

The paper contains a detailed overview of the history of Noctuoidea study in Belarus since the middle of the XIX century. Critical analysis of the Noctuoidea species list in the Catalogue of Lepidoptera of Belarus (Merzheyevskaya et al., 1976) is made. A list of species missing from this catalogue but recorded in preceding publications is compiled, supplemented with records of the species found in Belarus after publication of the catalogue. Data on the examined material for 19 species new to the fauna of Belarus are given.     

Zoogeographic and landscape-biotopic analysis of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of the Republic of Belarus

The chorological analysis of the Noctuoidea fauna of the Republic of Belarus is presented, and the faunistic lists for Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Pskov and Moscow Provinces, Poland, the Polish part of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, and Ukrainian Polesye are compared. The Trans-Palaearctic, Western Palaearctic, and Euro-Siberian species dominate in all the compared regions, which are grouped into two clusters. The first cluster includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the northern part of Belarus, and Moscow Province; adjacent to it is Pskov Province whose fauna is still insufficiently studied. The second cluster unites the central and southern parts of Belarus as well as the Polish part of Bialowieza Forest and Ukrainian Polesye. The landscape and biotopic distribution of Noctuoidea in Belarus is also considered. Most of the species are forest and meadow inhabitants. The first group is formed by predominantly meso- and hygrophilous species that initially inhabited natural open habitats, and also by mesophilous and meso-xerophilous species which have occupied various open habitats of secondary origin. The majority of the second group are mesophilous species trophically associated with trees, shrubs, and forest herbaceous vegetation.