Fróðskaparrit

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An annotated list of Lepidoptera known

from the Faroe Islands

Nágreiniligt yvirlit yvir firvaldar í Føroyum

SvendKaaber

Digtervænget 2, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

Urtak

I yvirlitinum yvir firvaldar í Føroyum eru 108 sløg, tey

eru 51 fleiri nú enn í fyrra yvirlitinum frá 1970. Trý sløg

(Colias crocea, Pieris brassicae og Nymphalis antiopa)

eru bara skrásett, at vera sædd. Millum tey 108 sløgini

eru 12 roknað sum tilvildarlig, 40 koma henda vegin

sum ferðafirvaldar og 56 føroysk uppruna sløg.

Abstract

The present checklist enumerates 108 Lepidoptera

species, known from the Faroes, an increase of 51

species since the former checklist in 1970. Three of the

species (Colias crocea, Pieris brassicae and Nymphalis

antiopa) have only been recorded as observations.

Among the 108 species 12 are regarded as casual, 40 as

vagrant or migrating species, and 56 as indigenous

resident species.

In 1970 the late Dr. N.L.Wolff at the Zoo-

logical Museum in Copenhagen (ZMUC)

published a revised checklist of the lepi-

dopterous fauna of the Faroe Islands. The

list enumerated 57 species, including the

two butterflies, Inachis io L. and Aglais ur-

ticae L., which in the list were considered

as accidentally introduced (Wolff, 1970).

During the years from 1970 to 1990,

only scattered field work on lepidoptera

was carried out. Consequently little infor-

mation has been published with regard to

this part of the Faroe fauna. From this peri-

od information has been obtained regarding

six lepidoptera species, which were new to

the Faroe fauna: In 1971, the Danish dental

surgeon and lepidopterist Mr. Ole Sandvej

served his military duties on the Royal Ma-

rine Station in Tórshavn. Among the lepi-

doptera which were collected during his

stay, there was a specimen of the common

cloth moth Tineola bisselliella Hummel. In

1973 during an outbreak of the well-known

migrant hawkmoth Hyles galii Rott. a spec-

imen was recorded from Nólsoy (Kaaber,

1974). During 1978 and 1979 a Swedish-

Norwegian zoological team made a survey

of certain terrestrial invertebrate groups,

mainly Coleoptera, Araneae, Lumbricidae

and terrestrial Gastropoda, see Bengtson

and Hauge (1979). During the field work a

male specimen of the noctuid moth Phot-

edes stigmatica Ev. was found in 1978 in a

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