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G谩bor Ronkay

Personal data:
Surname: RONKAY
First Name: G谩bor
Title: MSc
Nationality: Hungarian
Year of birth: 1963
Home address: H-1137 Budapest, Szt. Istvan krt. 4, Hungary
Email: info@heterocera.hu

Curriculum vitae

I was born in Budapest at 4th February, 1963. I have finished my studies on the University of Agriculture, G枚d枚ll枚, Hungary in 1988.

I am interested in the World of the Lepidoptera from my childhood, starting the taxonomic work with the Palearctic Noctuidae after my first expeditions to Asia (Mongolia, Turkey) during my university training. As a Noctuidae specialist, I am working together with my brother, Laszlo Ronkay who is the curator of the Lepidoptera collection of the HNHM Budapest. Our special field is the subfamily Cuculliinae and the tribe Xyleninae within the subfamily Hadeninae. Besides a series of smaller papers, we are the authors of the Cuculliinae volumes of the series Noctuidae Europaeae.

In the last decade I turned my attention to the fauna of the Himalayan-Sino-Pacific region, investigating especially the so-called „winter fauna". I had numerous expeditions to this area (Pakistan, Nepal, China, Vietnam, Taiwan), and as a result of this activity more than five hundred new taxa were discovered and described. I have a private collection containing Noctuidae only, comprising some 5,000 taxa from Eurasia, including type material of more than 500 species and subspecies.

The richness of the Thyatiridae-fauna in this region and in my favourite late autumnal-early spring aspects has initiated the studies on the taxonomy and zoogeography of this family, as a joint research programme with Mr Gy. M. L谩szl贸, L. Ronkay and T. Witt. These works led finally to the monographic treatment of the Thyatiridae of Eurasia which is in its final stage.

In the last two years we have started the taxonomic study of another large Noctuoidea group, the subfamily Nolinae. Similarly to the Thyatiridae, the main target is the taxonomy and biogeography of the Palearctic and Oriental fauna and the preliminary results show an unexpectedly rich and diverse Noline-fauna of these areas.


List of publications:

GYULAI P. & L脕SZL脫 M. Gy. & PEKARSKY O. & PEREGOVITS L. & RONKAY G. & RONKAY L. & SZAB脫KY Cs. & VARGA Z. & Witt T.J. in press.. Macrolepidoptera of Hungary. Heterocera Press, Budapest.

L谩szl贸 Gy.M. & Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. & Witt T. & Yen S.H. in press. Thyatiridae. In: Fauna of Taiwan,

Ronkay L. & Ronkay G. 1986. Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae. I. I of four new species. Acta zool. I. 32(3-4): 351-360.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1987. Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). II. Acta zool. 33: 3-4.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1987. Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Boll. Mus. Part. 5(2): 631-666.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1988. Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Part IV. Annls hist.-nat. Part. Part. hung. 80: 91-103.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1993 [1992]. Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae. Part V. Part stigmatophora-group (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Acta zool. Part. 38: 3-4.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1994. Cuculliinae I. Noctuidae Europaeae, Entomological Press, Soro. Vol. 6: 282.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 1995. Cuculliinae II. Noctuidae Europaeae, Entomological Press, Soro. Vol. 7: 224.

L谩szl贸 Gy. M. & Ronkay G. 1999. Species of the genus Epipsestis Matsumura, 1921 in Taiwan, with the descriptions of three new taxa (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae) Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural. Science. 12: 75-92.

L谩szl贸 Gy. M. & Peregovits L. & Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2000. On the genesis of the Himalayan-Sino-Pacific Thyatiridae (Lepidoptera) fauna, with special reference to Taiwan. In: Biodiversity Across the Taiwan Strait, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, poster volume, (pp. 65),

L谩szl贸 Gy. M. & Ronkay G. 2000. New Epipsestis Matsumura, 1921 species (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae) from Vietnam and from Nepal. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 46(4): 337-349.

L谩szl贸 Gy. M. & Ronkay G. 2000. Species of the genus Epipsestis Matsumura, 1921 in Taiwan, with the descriptions of three new taxa (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae). - Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural. Science, Taichung. 12: 75-92.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2000. A new subspecies of Hemictenophora euplexioides Sugi, 1970, from the Orchid Island (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Ipimorphinae). - Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural. Science, Taichung. 12: 113-116.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2000. New Agrochola and Owadaglaea (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xylenini) species from Central Asia and Indochina. (*Results of the Lepidopterological Research Project of the Himalayan Wildlife Foundation and the Hungarian Natural History Museum for the exploration of the fauna of the Deosai National Park and the Northern Areas of Pakistan, No. 2.). Ronkay zool. Ronkay. 46(4): 351-388.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2000. New Noctuidae taxa from Taiwan (Lepidoptera). (Results of the joint project of the HNHM and the TFRI, entitled with "Biodiversity studies on the fauna of Taiwan, No. 1.). Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung. 12: 93-112.

L谩szl贸 Gy. M. & Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2001. Taxonomic studies on the Eurasian Thyatiridae. Revision of Wernya Yoshimoto, 1987 generic complex and the genus Takapsestis Matsumura, 1933 (Lepidoptera). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 47(1): 27-85.

Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. 2002. New Noctuidae taxa from Taiwan (Lepidoptera), II. (Results of the joint project of the HNHM and the TFRI, entitled with "Biodiversity studies on the Macrolepidoptera fauna of Taiwan: taxonomy, faunagenetics and inventory of selected lepidopteran families", No. 4.). Acta zool. hung. 47(4): 371-398.

L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & Witt T. 2004. New Species in the Genus Sarbena WALKER, 1862 (Lepidoptera, Nolidae). Investigations on Asian Nolidae I. Entomofauna. 25: 281-294.

L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & T.Witt 2005. New and poorly known species of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae). Investigations on Asian Nolidae. Entomofauna. 26(11): 205-224.

L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & Witt T. 2006. Description of a New Genus and Five New Species of Nolinae from Thailand. Investigations on Asian Nolidae III.(Lepidoptera, Nolidae). Entomofauna. 27(21): 265-276.

M眉ller G.C. & L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. & Speidel W. & Kravchenko V.D. & Mooser J. & Witt T. 2006. The Drepanoidea of Israel: Distribution, Phenology and Ecology (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae and Drepanidae), with description of a new species. Entomofauna. 27(4): 57-76.

L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & Witt T. 2007. New species of the Meganola nitida (HAMPSON, 1894) species-group. Investigations on Asian Nolidae V (Lepidoptera, Nolidae). Entomofauna. 28(14): 157-172.

L谩szl贸 G.M. & Ronkay G. & Witt T. 2007. New taxa in the Meganola scripta (MOORE, 1888) species group and in the genus Dialithoptera HAMPSON, 1900. Investigations on Asian Nolidae IV (Lepidoptera, Nolidae). Entomofauna. 28(2): 17-32.

L谩szl贸 Gy.M. & Ronkay G. & Ronkay L. & Witt T. 2007. The Thyatiridae of Eurasia including the Sundaland and New Guinea (Lepidoptera). Esperiana. 13: 1-683.