An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)
This paper presents an updated checklist of the butterflies of Europe, together with their original name combinations, and their occurrence status in each European country. According to this checklist, 496 species of the superfamily Papilionoidea occur in Europe. Changes in comparison with the last...
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| author | Martin Wiemers Emilio Balletto Vlad Dincă Zdenek Faltynek Fric Gerardo Lamas Vladimir Lukhtanov Miguel L. Munguira Chris A. M. van Swaay Roger Vila Albert Vliegenthart Niklas Wahlberg Rudi Verovnik |
| author_facet | Martin Wiemers Emilio Balletto Vlad Dincă Zdenek Faltynek Fric Gerardo Lamas Vladimir Lukhtanov Miguel L. Munguira Chris A. M. van Swaay Roger Vila Albert Vliegenthart Niklas Wahlberg Rudi Verovnik |
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| description | This paper presents an updated checklist of the butterflies of Europe, together with their original name combinations, and their occurrence status in each European country. According to this checklist, 496 species of the superfamily Papilionoidea occur in Europe. Changes in comparison with the last version (2.6.2) of Fauna Europaea are discussed. Compared to that version, 16 species are new additions, either due to cryptic species most of which have been discovered by molecular methods (13 cases) or due to discoveries of Asian species on the eastern border of the European territory in the Ural mountains (three cases). On the other hand, nine species had to be removed from the list, because they either do not occur in Europe or lost their species status due to new evidence. In addition, three species names had to be changed and 30 species changed their combination due to new evidence on phylogenetic relationships. Furthermore, minor corrections were applied to some authors’ names and years of publication. Finally, the name Polyommatus ottomanus Lefèbvre, 1831, which is threatened by its senior synonym Lycaena legeri Freyer, 1830, is declared a nomen protectum, thereby conserving its name in the current combination Lycaena ottomana. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc2c553eaf6c45d3b2ddf84f7fbea97d2022-12-21T23:28:17ZengPensoft PublishersZooKeys1313-29891313-29702018-12-0181194510.3897/zookeys.811.2871228712An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)Martin Wiemers0Emilio Balletto1Vlad Dincă2Zdenek Faltynek Fric3Gerardo Lamas4Vladimir Lukhtanov5Miguel L. Munguira6Chris A. M. van Swaay7Roger Vila8Albert Vliegenthart9Niklas Wahlberg10Rudi Verovnik11UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchTurin UniversityUniversity of OuluBiology Centre CASUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosZoological Institute of Russian Academy of SciencesUniversidad Autónoma de MadridDutch Butterfly ConservationCSIC-Universitat Pompeu FabraDutch Butterfly ConservationLund UniversityUniversity of LjubljanaThis paper presents an updated checklist of the butterflies of Europe, together with their original name combinations, and their occurrence status in each European country. According to this checklist, 496 species of the superfamily Papilionoidea occur in Europe. Changes in comparison with the last version (2.6.2) of Fauna Europaea are discussed. Compared to that version, 16 species are new additions, either due to cryptic species most of which have been discovered by molecular methods (13 cases) or due to discoveries of Asian species on the eastern border of the European territory in the Ural mountains (three cases). On the other hand, nine species had to be removed from the list, because they either do not occur in Europe or lost their species status due to new evidence. In addition, three species names had to be changed and 30 species changed their combination due to new evidence on phylogenetic relationships. Furthermore, minor corrections were applied to some authors’ names and years of publication. Finally, the name Polyommatus ottomanus Lefèbvre, 1831, which is threatened by its senior synonym Lycaena legeri Freyer, 1830, is declared a nomen protectum, thereby conserving its name in the current combination Lycaena ottomana.https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28712/ |
| spellingShingle | Martin Wiemers Emilio Balletto Vlad Dincă Zdenek Faltynek Fric Gerardo Lamas Vladimir Lukhtanov Miguel L. Munguira Chris A. M. van Swaay Roger Vila Albert Vliegenthart Niklas Wahlberg Rudi Verovnik An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) ZooKeys |
| title | An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) |
| title_full | An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) |
| title_fullStr | An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) |
| title_full_unstemmed | An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) |
| title_short | An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) |
| title_sort | updated checklist of the european butterflies lepidoptera papilionoidea |
| url | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28712/ |
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