Prilog poznavanju faune danjih leptira (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Hrvatskog zagorja, Hrvatska

Authors and affiliation

• Toni Koren Association Hyla, Lipovac I 7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Boris Lauš Association Hyla, Lipovac 7, Zagreb, Croatia
• Martina Šašić Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Iva Mihoci Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Ana Štih Koren Association Hyla, Lipovac I n. 7, Zagreb, Croatia
• Petra Bralić Public Institutions for the Management of Protected Areas in the Krapina-Zagorje County, Radoboj 8, HR-49232 Radoboj, Croatia
• Stanislav Gomboc EGEA, Institution for Nature, Tacenska cesta 135A, SI-1133 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

During a nine-year survey of the Hrvatsko zagorje region carried out from 2008 until 2016 we recorded 112 butterfly species. Records were supplemented with seven species known only from literature data, which amounted to 119 species representing 60 % of the Croatian butterfly fauna. The highest butterfly diversity was registered on the mountains Ivanščica and Strahinjščica and along the Sutla River valley. Several rare and endangered species were recorded in the region, mostly grassland specialists such as Phengaris teleius, Ph. alcon rebeli, Polyommatus thersites, Euphydryas aurinia and Zerynthia polyxena whose habitats are declining due to changes in the use of grasslands like abandonment or, less frequently, intensification. The population of Lycaena dispar is still locally numerous, but its habitats are now rapidly overgrown with invasive alien plants. The butterfly diversity of Hrvatsko zagorje is high in comparison with the neighbouring region of Haloze in Slovenia. In order to maintain the high butterfly diversity in the region, grasslands and forest edges in the region are in a need of conservation actions and revitalization.

Keywords

Lepidoptera, butterfly diversity, Croatia, Hrvatsko zagorje

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