ADDITIONAL DATA ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM SERBIA

This work reports on results from occasional collections in many sites of Serbia in the period 2015-2018., as well as one earlier material from 1982. By more than 50 excursions, from March to October, by day and night and by light traps, a total amount of 45 selected species of Lepidoptera from 10 families were caught. A full list and description of the localities of collection, some colour plates and the comment about some species apart relevant are also included.


INTRODUCTION
During the few last decades our knowledge of the Lepidoptera fauna of Serbia has significantly increased. The most notable contributions are by Jakšić (2016b) for Serbian "Microlepidoptera", Vasić (2002) and Beshkov (2015) for Serbian Noctuidae, Tomić et al. (2002) and Dodok (2006) for Serbian Geometridae, as well as Stojanović (2012) and Vajgand (2012) for Vojvodina, also Beshkov (2015Beshkov ( , 2017, Plant et al. (2017) and Jakšić (2017) for eastern Serbia. Still, a significant part of territory of Serbia remain with only few historical or recent publications. The researchers attention was focused on new species for Serbian fauna. On the other hand, data on "ordinary" species are insufficient.
The goal of this paper is to improve our knowledge about distribution of Lepidoptera species in Serbia. Besides, all available literature and collection data were taken into account.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
To gain an overview of the knowledge of the Lepidoptera fauna of Serbia all the available literature was consulted.
Fieldwork on protected areas was done on the basis of permits provided by the Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Republic of Serbia, No. 353-01-389/2016-17, dated from 8. 4. 2016. and No. 353-01-834/2017-17, dated from 11. 05. 2017 All the material (specimens and genitalia slides) is deposited in the author's collection.
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Fibiger et al. (2011) for Noctuidae and Aarvik et al. (2017) for other Lepidoptera. ID number before the species follows Karsholt & Razowski (1996).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Altogether 45 species were recorded. We present and discuss the results by taxonomic order.  (Fig. 4).
The larva eats full-grown grasses, from the genus Poa, Festuca, Glyceria, Calamagrostis, Deschampsia, Agrostis, Nardus, Dactylis, Lolium and Hordeum species.      ond locality on which this species has been established (Fig. 8). Ecologicaly, it is a specialist of salty steppes with Artemisia maritima as a larval food plant. In eastern Serbia it is locally distributed in the forest belt, up to 1000 m above sea level, occurring in forest margins. On so far known habitats in eastern Serbia Artemisia alba Turra were present. This means that the habitat shift has occurred. This is a taxon with a disjunct distribution. It is distributed in Iberian Peninsula (Granada), South-East Europe and central Asia (Russia, Kazakhstan). Agenjo (1956) described this species as a N. isabel Agenjo, 1956. Now, this name is synonym. Several subspecies are described: N. t. tessularia (Metzner, 1845); N. t. illia Wehrli, 1940;N. t. kasyi Moucha &Povolny, 1957 andN. t. pannonica Vojnits, 1977. According to Skou & Sihvonen (2015) populations from Serbia are related to nominal subspecies -N. tessularia tessularia (Metzner, 1845).  Polyphagous caterpillars feed on Achillea, Laburnum, Rumex, Taraxacum, Trifolium and Centaurea species. The presence of species of the genus Lycia in Serbia has not been completely resolved. This genus is present in Europe with eight species. In Serbia, four species are registered: L. hirtaria (Clerck, 1759), L. graecarius (Staudinger, 1861), L. zonaria (Denis und Schiffermüller, 1775) and L. pomonaria (Hübner, 1790) (Tomić et al., 2002;Stojanović et al., 2006;Jakšić, 2016a). However, the species of this genus due to insufficient morphological-anatomical distinction, as well as due to hybridization, are of particular interest (Harrison, 1919). Preliminary results of the current DNA barcoding method show that this method can solve complex taxonomic problems (Hausmann et al., 2011). 7699 Erannis defoliaria (Clerck, 1759) A survey of the literature: Jovanović (1888). After Jovanović's first contributions there are another 35 literature data for presence of this species in Serbia (see distribution map on Fig. 9).
This species is an inhabitant of coniferous woodland, their caterpillar feed mainly on Pinus species.  A survey of the literature: the first data on this species was given by Rotschild (1911) who found it on Deliblato Sands, Flamunda. Then, for Serbia, Culot (1913) also quoted it, stating that it has material in its collection. But he does not say who collected the material. Gradojević (1963) and Vasić (1969) also state this species for Deliblato Sands. Recently, Ronkay & Ronkay (1995) describe subspecies deliblatica (G. Ronkay L. Ronkay, 1995) on material from Deliblato Sands. We can see from this review of literature that the species is known only from Deliblato Sands. Material examined: Bela Palanka, Šljivovički Vis, 926 m, 1f, 22. VI 2017. This is the second locality on which this species was found in Serbia.
In unexplored areas, there are discovering new and rare species for Serbia's fauna. This speaks of insufficient exploration of this group of insects. Zečević (1996) summed up the knowledge for that time, quantitatively expressed by the number of 1334 species of Lepidoptera in Serbia. According to uncertificated data it is estimated that up to 2500 species have been found in Serbia so far. And that's about half the number of species known in Hungary or Romania. Our results show that, in addition to identifying new species, it is also important to identify already known species in new areas throughout Serbia.