Folia entomologica hungarica

Author(s): Sáfián, Sz., Larsen, T. B., Collins, S. C., Csontos, G. & Aduse-poku, K.
Title: Results of the butterfly and moth inventory in Ghana I. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Year: 2012
Volume: 73
Pages: 53-75.

Abstract: Recent data (collected between 2001 and 2011 during several research surveys) on the distribution of 239 species of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) in Ghana are presented as the first results of the long-term research project “Butterfly and Moth Inventory and Prime Butterfly Areas in Ghana”. Aslauga cf. prouvosti, Pentila condamini STEMPFFER, 1963, Micropentila AURIVILLIUS, 1895 sp., Teratoneura isabellae DUDGEON, 1909, Iridana agneshorvathae COLLINS, LARSEN et SÁFIÁN, 2008, Iridana cf. perdita, Cephetola nigra (BETHUNE-BAKER, 1903), and Geritola albomaculata (BETHUNE-BAKER, 1903) are recorded as new in the Lepidoptera fauna of Ghana. Many records of other species are of biogeographical importance. With one figure.
Keywords: West Africa, Ghana, Distribution data, Lepidoptera inventory, Lycaenidae
Subject: entomology

Journal: Folia entomologica hungarica
Journal abbreviation: Folia ent. hung.
ISSN: 0373-9465
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Merkl, O. & Fuisz, T. I.