Collection and database Filipp Kovalevsky

Study Extent

Eastern Palaearctic, irregular observations

Sampling

Visual identification without collecting; manual sampling with entomological net during daytime; light traps (attracting to artificial UV & MV light sources at nighttime).

Method steps

1. n/a (irregular sampling, standard entomological methods applied)

All observed specimens identified to species. The superfamily Papilionoidea is best represented in the dataset and includes families (here and below - in alphabetic order) Hesperiidae (nine species), Lycaenidae (22 species), Nymphalidae (44 species), Papilionidae (seven species), Pieridae (19 species), and Satyridae (18 species). Fragmentary data on taxa of Bombycidae (one species), Brahmaeidae (one species), Erebidae (two species), Saturniidae (two species) and Sphingidae (15 species) are also presented.

1. Lepidoptera
   common name: Butterflies and moths rank: order

The studied material comes from the north-eastern Palaearctic and includes data from Eastern Siberia (Republic of Sakha – Yakutia) and the Russian Far East (Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Primorsky Krai).