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Fauna Europaea - Lepidoptera

Dataset homepage

Citation

de Jong Y, Döring M (2016). Fauna Europaea - Lepidoptera. Fauna Europaea Consortium. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0ub3co accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-23.

Description

All Lepidoptera from the Fauna Europaea project, which has assembled a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The covered area is the same as European mainland (Western Palearctic), plus the Macaronesian islands (excluding Cape Verde Islands), Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, the Western Kazakhstan excluded. The geographic boundaries include: East: Ural (E 60°), West: Atlantic Ocean (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) (W 30°), South: Mediterranean (N 35°), North: Arctic Islands (N 82°)

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Yde de Jong
originator
FaEu
email: yjong@uva.nl
Markus Döring
metadata author
GBIF Secretariat
email: mdoering@gbif.org
Markus Döring
administrative point of contact
GBIF Secretariat
email: mdoering@gbif.org
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