Echoes from the past ¦ rediscovering Isoscelipteron fulvum Costa, 1863 (Neuroptera ¦ Berothidae) in Italy.
Author
Letardi, Agostino
text
Arquivos Entomolóxicos
2017
2017-12-14
18
279
282
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12767605
1989-6581
12767605
Isoscelipteron fulvum
Costa, 1863
Italy
:
Calabria
,
Montalto Uffugo
(
CS
)
,
Vallone Argentino
,
565 m
,
light trap
,
39,4082°N
16,1209°E
,
22.VII.2015
,
1
♂,
Scalercio
&
S. Infusino
M. leg.,
Collezione Museo Scienze Naturali di Bergamo
(
A. Letardi
det.)
.
Italy
:
Calabria
,
Fuscaldo
(
CS
), fiumara
Lavandaia
,
30 m
,
light trap
,
39,449°N
15,994°E
,
18- 24.VIII.2017
,
1
♀,
Valle N.
& M. leg.,
Collezione Museo Scienze Naturali di Bergamo
(
A. Letardi
det.)
.
The male specimen was collected during a research conducted to study moth communities in chestnut woodlands of the Catena Costiera mountains,
Calabria
(
Italy
). The Catena Costiera is a mountain chain that stretches about
70 km
on the northern Tyrrhenian coast of
Calabria
, between the Orsomarso mountains and the mouth of the Savuto river. The location of the mountain chain, combined with the system of winds that blow mainly from the west loads of humidity, create a microclimate characterized by persistent fog for most of the year, with high rainfall and cool temperatures. These characteristics favor the development of forest vegetation with the presence on the Tyrrhenian side of beech forests from very low altitudes. The East slope is characterized by the abundant presence of chestnut (
Castanea sativa
L.) and other mesophilic species (e.g.
Quercus
spp.
,
Alnus
spp.
or
Salix
spp.
).
In order to monitor the local entomofauna (
Greco
et al
., 2016
), insects were sampled using UV-LED traps powered by a 12
V
battery (
Fig. 1
). Traps were positioned at 1.30 m above ground level and equipped with a timer that turned on at the sunset and turned off at the sunrise. Traps were activated one night per month from
May to November 2015
.
The female specimen was collected two years later, by a UV-LED trap positioned on the ground (
Fig. 2
) near the coastal Tyrrhenian area between the sea and the Catena Costiera mountains, in a riparian dense vegetation zone adjacent to a small creek characterized by the abundant presence of alder trees (
Alnus
spp.
).