Check list of Slovenian Microlepidoptera - Univerza v Ljubljani

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Tone LESAR & Marijan GOVEDIČ: Check List of Slovenian Microlepidoptera / SCIENTIFIC PAPER
The species list, which includes 1645 species from 56 families, is based on data from 290
literature sources published from 1763 (Scopoli) till today.
We must emphasize that our checklist is a review, not a revision, and that data have been
gleaned from the literature. This is the reason why judgments as to possible incorrectly
presented species for Slovenia are given only exceptionally. In a separate list 24 species are
listed as excluded from the fauna of Slovenia. All the species stated for Slovenia are dealt
with. In the list, we have kept some species that are believed by some people not to be
present in Slovenia, with the existing data probably based on incorrect determinations.
Decisions of this kind are possible only through well-founded substantiations and
authentication of museal material which, however, is not the purpose of this work.
Additionally, a list of taxa with uncertain status is given.
The list further includes the species whose only source is the Red List or the List of
Protected Species in Slovenia (Anonymous 2002, 2004), despite the fact that we have found
no primary sources that would confirm the finds of these species in Slovenia. For the species
Caryocolum peregrinella, Jordanita graeca, Phtheochroa fulvicinctana, Cochylimorpha
halophilana, Eupoecilia sanguisorbana, Choristoneura lafauryana, Eucosma flavispecula,
Hypsotropa limbella, Eudonia angustea, Diasemiopsis ramburialis and Agdistis intermedia we
thus expect an early publishing of the finds, the same as a years later, for Bembecia
himmighoffeni, Catoptria pauperellus, Schoenobius gigantella and Atralata albofascialis
(Predovnik 2005, Habeler & Gomboc 2005, Lesar & Habeler 2005, Slamka 2008). For several
species, the only source used is secondary literature (e.g. Rothe 1902), which predominantly
states data for larger areas (Carniola, Slovenia), although we, the authors of this article, are in
no position to give a judgment on the correctness of the statements therein.
Several species that appear in the list are referred to only in Scopoli (1763) (e.g. Cauchas
leucocerella, Coleophora vestianella) or in Mann (1854) or Zeller (1868) and have no longer
been confirmed for Slovenia in the last 100 years.
Apart from all species described by Scopoli (1763) in Entomologia Carniolica, places in
Slovenia can be also considered as type localities at least for Incurvaria triglavensis Hauder,
1912, Pelecystola fraudulentella (Zeller, 1852), Postsolenobia nanosella Petru & Liška, 2003,
Brevantennia triglavensis (Rebel, 1919) and Merrifieldia renatae Skyva & Elsner, 2007.
The list of sources also states some older sources that can be considered one of the basic
works in the sphere of microlepidopterology. In Zeller (1851, 1852) and Frey (1852) for
example, several data from Carniola can be found.