Rhopalocera de la Caldera de Lubá, isla de Bioko (Guinea Ecuatorial): Papilionidae, Pieridae y Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

I. Martín; P. Cobos

doi:10.57065/shilap.653

Authors

I. Martín Universidad Politécnica de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-2463
P. Cobos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0579-2003

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.653

Keywords:

Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Caldera de Lubá, monsoon forest, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Abstract

The present work presents the first registers of Papilionidae, Pieridae y Lycaenidae from inside the Caldera de Lubá, situated in the south of Bioko. Of the 16 species collected belonging to these families (8 Papilionidae, 4 Pieridae and 4 Lycaenidae) four of them represent the first mentions for the Island: Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865), Papilio phorcas congoanus Rothschild, 1896; Nepheronia argia (Fabricius, 1775) and Pentila fidoniodes Schultze, 1923. The maximum height of captures was 1293 m.a.s.l. and the minimum was at sea level, all of them taking place in an undisturbed habitat of primary monsoon forest. The abundance of Graphium biokoensis (Gauthier, 1984) in Bioko Island is questioned.

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