New records and increase of the known distribution of Rhopalocera species in the Comunidad Valenciana and Teruel province

Authors

  • S. Montagud Museu Valencià d’Història Natural. Fundación Entomológica Torres Sala
  • J. A. García-Alamá Museu Valencià d’Història Natural. Fundación Entomológica Torres Sala

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2007.v63.i1.82

Keywords:

Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera, Pieridae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, Valencian Community, Teruel, Spain

Abstract


The authors summarize data for 18 species of Rhopalocera to complete knowledge of their distribution and biology in Comunidad Valenciana and Teruel province. These species have been selected for two reasons: 1) Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758), Erebia meolans (de Prunner, 1798), Polyommatus (Meleageria) daphnis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), Laeosopis roboris (Esper, 1789), Nordmannia acaciae (Fabricius, 1787) and Plebeius hespericus (Rambur, 1839) are new records for Comunidad Valenciana and 2) Euchloe belemia (Esper, 1800), Pieris mannii (Mayer, 1851), Zegris eupheme (Esper, 1804), Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829), Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus 1758), Erebia epistygne (Hübner, 1819), Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758), Libythea celtis (Laicharting, 1782), Glaucopsyche (Iolana) iolas (Ochsenheimer, 1816), Scolitantides orion (Pallas, 1771), Neozephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Plebeius (Aricia) morronensis Ribbe, 1910, for these species, known distribution is considerably extended and interesting data about their biology are provided.

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Published

2007-06-30

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Montagud S, García-Alamá JA. New records and increase of the known distribution of Rhopalocera species in the Comunidad Valenciana and Teruel province. Graellsia [Internet]. 2007Jun.30 [cited 2024Jul.23];63(1):71-88. Available from: https://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/view/82

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