Second edition of "Day Butterflies of Eastern Europe"

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guest: L, 16.09.2006 20:57

Colleagues!

The second edition of the disk "Day butterflies of Eastern Europe" with faunal additions, new species and subspecies is published. The second edition also includes new taxa for the region and new subspecies described in the last 2 years.

The CD "Day Butterflies of Eastern Europe" is the result of a multi-year international project. Its authors are entomologists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (I. G. Plyushch, D. V. Morgun, K. E. Dovgailo, I. A. Solodovnikov, N. I. Rubin).

This work is a complete survey (database) and guide to 379 species with corresponding subspecies of diurnal lepidoptera distributed in Norway (Finnmark province), Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, the European part of Russia (including all subjects of the North Caucasus), as well as Western Kazakhstan (Ural and Atyrau regions). A separate list is given of 13 species that were probably erroneously listed for this territory in old (early XX century) literary sources.
There are 2 parts to the work : a database (essays on families, genera, species, and subspecies) and a polytomic determinant for all subspecies.
Faunal data from these territories are generalized, based on the analysis of our own observations and collections, as well as a large volume of literary sources (about 2000 names). In total, the authors reviewed and analyzed more than 300,000 specimens of mace-whiskered lepidoptera from the study region. Most of the materials and data on the distribution and ecology of species are original and presented for the first time. A good visual aid to the category "Distribution in Eastern Europe" is absolutely original maps-schemes of areas. The CD-ROM contains 421 distribution maps, and thus many taxa are illustrated with 2 smaller-scale maps.
This paper discusses separately and publishes for the first time data on the phenology and number of generations, characteristic and specific ethological details of the preimaginal development of many rare and little-known endemic Eastern European species.
Taxa sketches are supplemented with more than 3,800 original photos of diurnal lepidoptera (at least 4 photos per species or subspecies-the upper and lower sides of the male and female wings are illustrated, for some species there are images of butterflies in natural conditions or photos of preimaginal stages).

Information about your work can be sent by e-mail: d_moth@mail.ru. See also the site www.lysandrasoft.com

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30.09.2006 14:30, guest: D

Compared to the first edition, the additions are as follows:
- new taxa first found or described in 2005-2006 from this territory are presented (for example, West Kazakhstan Athamantia);
- there are a number of significant faunal additions (new points specifying the range), which are reflected in the essays and on maps;
- new systematic clarifications are given (for example, the new status of the subspecies aurorina from Dagestan).
If you have the first edition, you can update it online for free. To do this, contact the project coordinator Kirill Dovgailo kir-dov@mail.ru and specify the update method.
You can also find detailed information about similar information projects on the website www.lysandrasoft.com.