Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20302/NC.2018.27.6
Diversity of moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) in the surroundings of the Bednja River, Varaždin County, Northern Croatia
Toni Koren
orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-6287
; Hyla Association, I. Lipovac 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The first survey of the moth fauna on the Natura 2000 site Livade uz Bednju I to IV and its near surroundings was conducted in 2016. Four locations were selected and visited three times in different seasons. A total of 381 moth species were recorded, with the most numerous families being Geometridae (102 species), Noctuidae (94 species), Erebidae (44 species) and Crambidae (35 species). In order to put the results in perspective, a preliminary checklist of moths in the Varaždin county was created based on the literature overview and this survey, containing 603 species. 189 species recorded during this survey represent new county records. The greatest increase in the number of species was for the Noctuidae (40 species) and Geometridae (19 species) families. Some species like Diachrysia zosimi were previously recorded only a few times in Croatia. The surveyed sites can now be regarded as some of the best studied areas in Croatia in respect to their moth fauna.
Keywords
wet meadows; Natura 2000; checklist; fauna
Hrčak ID:
201984
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2018.
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