Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20302/NC.2017.26.15
Prilog poznavanju faune danjih leptira (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Hrvatskog zagorja, Hrvatska
Toni Koren
; Association Hyla, Lipovac I no. 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Boris Lauš
; Association Hyla, Lipovac I no. 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Martina Šašić
; Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Iva Mihoci
; Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Štih
; Association Hyla, Lipovac I no. 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Petra Bralić
; Public Institutions for the Management of Protected Areas in the Krapina-Zagorje County, Radoboj 8, HR-49232 Radoboj, Croatia
Stanislav Gomboc
; EGEA, Institution for Nature, Tacenska cesta 135A, SI-1133 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
During a nine-year survey of the region Hrvatsko zagorje carried out from 2008 until 2016 we recorded 112 butterfly species in the region. Records were complemented with seven species known from literature data, which amounted to 119 species representing 60 % of the Croatian butterfly fauna. The highest butterfly diversity was registered on the mountains Ivanščica and Strahinjščica and along the Sutla river valley. Several rare and endangered species were recorded in the region, mostly grassland specialists such as Phengaris teleius, Ph. alcon rebeli, Polyommatus thersites, Euphydryas aurinia and Zerynthia polyxena whose habitats are declining due to changes in use of grasslands like abandonment or, less frequently, intensification. The population of Lycaena dispar is still locally numerous, but its habitats are now rapidly overgrown with invasive alien plants. The butterfly diversity of Hrvatsko zagorje is higher in comparison with the neighbouring region Haloze in Slovenia. In order to maintain the high butterfly diversity in the region, grasslands and forest edges in the region are in a need of conservation actions and revitalizations.
Keywords
Lepidoptera; raznolikost leptira; Hrvatska; Hrvatsko zagorje
Hrčak ID:
191533
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2017.
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