Entomologia Croatica, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2025.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17971/ec.24.1.1
First records of Death's Head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758) in Baranja (Croatia)
Stjepan Krčmar
orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-6117
; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Biology, Cara Hadrijana 8/A, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
*
Jenő J. Purger
; Department of Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
One specimen of Death’s Head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758), was recorded on the wall of an abandoned district school, at the locality of Majške Međe in October 2007. This is the first observation of this species in the north-eastern part of Croatia (Baranja), but it was not published yet. Similarly, another record from September 2019 in the village of Lug can be seen only from the online data base. This case indicate the importance of citizen science in recording of easily recognizable species. Eight butterflies species (Sphingidae) have been recorded in Baranja so far, which represents 36.36% of the total species number of this family in Croatia.
Keywords
citizen science; distribution; fauna; Lepidoptera; Sphingidae
Hrčak ID:
336347
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2025.
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