PRIAMUS Serial Publication of the Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Supplement Number 43 20 03 2016 ISSN 1015-8243 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C3A4C3ED-3A35-487E-AE5F-130BD2C13272 Updated annotated bibliography and the Lepidoptera of Afghanistan Ahmet Ömer Koçak Muhabbet Kemal 1 Abstract: Updated annotated bibliography and the Lepidoptera of Afghanistan. Cent. ent. Stud. Priamus (Suppl.) 43: 1-217. This study deals with the evaluation of 1003 publications and the annotated list of Lepidoptera of Afghanistan. In the first part, previous bibliographical publications of the authors are compared numerically. The selected 20 themes, i.e., atlas, bibliography, bionomy, catalogue/ checklist, classification, distribution, ecology, ethology, fauna, genitalic illustrations, identification keys, larval morphology, map, adult morphology, molecular information, nomenclature, pupal morphology, taxonomy, zoogeography, and method, are determined. Their numerical values in the bibliography are evaluated. In the main part, annotated list of the bibliography of Turkey is arranged according to the names of the authors, and the date of publications. Main themes are mentioned as codes. Mainly studied taxonomical groups are also given. Selected brief bibliographies are also added to 44 major families of Afghanian Lepidoptera. Key words: Lepidoptera, bibliography, Afghanistan. 1 A u t h o r s : Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhabbet Kemal, Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Biology, Campus, Van / Turkey. e-mail: muhabbet_kemal@yahoo.com.tr Prof. em. Dr. Ahmet Ömer Koçak, c/o Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Biology, Campus, Van / Turkey. e-mail: cesa_tr@yahoo.com.tr