Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.20302/NC.2016.25.28

New or interesting records of three butterfly (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea) species from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

Toni Koren orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-6287 ; Association Hyla, I. Lipovac 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Dejan Kulijer orcid.org/0000-0003-0274-6335 ; National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zmaja od Bosne 3, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

Three butterfly species were recorded for the first time for the fauna of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Herzegovina region: Danaus chrysippus, Cacyreus marshalli and Carcharodus orientalis. The records represent expansions to the known distribution, although the presence of all three species was expected as they are to be found in neighbouring countries. This is the third record that D. chrysippus has reached southern Croatia, and the first time it has been observed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The record of the non-native C. marshalli fills the distributional gap, and the record of C. orientalis, a rare and local species in the region, represents an increase of the known distribution in the mainland of the western Adriatic coastline. In the future, additional records of rare and unrecorded species are expected in the country.

Keywords

Carcharodus orientalis; Cacyreus marshalli; Danaus chrysippus; Herzegovina; new country records

Hrčak ID:

171920

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/171920

Publication date:

31.12.2016.

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