Abstract
Automatic autonomous light traps and their usage for the quantitative accountingon example of hawkmoths of Kyrgyzstan (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
Highlights
The Lepidoptera fauna of Kyrgyzstan is rich and unique
The light trapping is used for studies of some aspects of the hawkmoths ecology, including fauna, seasonality, flight period, etc. (Beck, Linsenmair, 2006; Duarte, Schlindwein, 2008; Vieira et al, 2015)
The rarest species are: Sphingonaepiopsis kuldjaensis (Graeser, 1892), Rethera komarovi Christoph, 1885, Proserpinus proserpina (Pallas, 1772), H. nicaea
Summary
The Lepidoptera fauna of Kyrgyzstan is rich and unique. Butterflies are traditionally studied better than moths: a lot of faunistic and systematic works have been published (e.g. Korb, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017; Tshikolovets, 2005). The moths fauna of this country has not been studied well; most of the data about this fauna can be extracted from the «Cadastre of the genetic diversity of Kyrgyzstan» (Milko, 1996) as far as from some recently published papers (Kaila et al, 1996; Korb et al, 2016; Schintlmeister, 2008). The light trapping is quite an old and very effective tool for biodiversity research. It was widely used by Russian researchers starting from the middle part of the last century (Bogush, 1951; Mazokhin-Porshnyakov, 1958; Gornostaev, 1961; Matalin, 1996); its usage for the quantitative accounting of nocturnal Lepidoptera is very well known (Dubatolov, 2012). The light trapping is used for studies of some aspects of the hawkmoths ecology, including fauna, seasonality, flight period, etc. (Beck, Linsenmair, 2006; Duarte, Schlindwein, 2008; Vieira et al, 2015)
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