Observations of Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
during ZOTKS summercamp in Goricko (Salovci) in 1999
Summary
End of July 1999 five people were observing butterflies in the
North Eastern part of Slovenia, close to the Hungarian border.
This area is called Goricko and even resembles my native country
Holland. At the start of this summercamp, organised by the
biology faculty of the university of Ljubljana, our mentor Rudi
told us he expected only 40 species and would be happy with 50.
This really was a disappointment to me. The previous
year at Sempas we observed 92 species, which was a new
record. Even at Sempas some rather common species were still
missing. Despite the really bad whether : cold, foggy and rainy,
we even gathered the first day 32 species ! And we kept going
till a remarkable 69 species. Nearly all species were seen in low
densities and quite a lot were only seen once or twice.
Unfortunately this is not shown in the tables below. The number
of Melitaea was rather low compared with previous
year but I liked the number of Colias species. The first
day we also took a look at night butterflies. For those
observations you should contact the author of the next article. I
guess that during this camp 963 observations were done on 60
localities which gave the previous ment 69 species. Maculinea
arion and Maculinea alcon were also surprisingly
common. On one location we found about 600 eggs on Gentiana.Maculinea
nausithous and Maculinea teleius were also often
flying together along way roads with Grote pimpernel (Sanguisorba
officinalis). On some places also Lycaena dispar was
present. Due to the bad whether I only remember large amounts of Maculinea
flying. Especially Kantesia circe ( Brintesia circe)was
a burden to me. I saw several times it flying but still nobody
around to confirm my observation and everytime it was to fast to
catch. Finally everbody was able to see it for two seconds before
it disappeard.
Andre H.
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POROCILO LEPIDOPTEROLOKE SKUPINE
TUDENTSKI TABOR Goricko 1999
RUDI VEROVNIK
Oddelek za biologijo BF, Vecna pot 111, SI
-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Clani:
Andreja kvarc
Jelena Mlinarec
Nika Hrabar
Primo Glogovcan
Primo Leben
Andre Hospers
Sodelujoci v
lepidopteroloki skupini smo raziskovali razirjenost
dnevnih metuljev na celotnem obmocju Gorickega in njegovega
junega obrobja. Tako smo v sedmih terenskih dneh na 60
lokalitetah opravili 963 opaanj posameznih vrst. Posebno
pozornost smo namenili vlainm in suhim habitatom, ki
ustrezajo ekolokim zahtevam vecine redkih in ogroenih
vrst. Hkrati smo se spoznavali s taksonomsko problematiko
metuljev, metodami lova in determinacijo.
Popisali smo 69 vrst metuljev dnevnikov (Rhopalocera), iz sedmih druin. Vrste so
natete v tabeli, nomenklatura pa je povzeta po Tolman in
Lewington 1997.
| fam. PAPILIONIDAE |
| 1. Papilio machaon(Koninginne
page) |
| 2. Iphiclides podalirius(Koningspage) |
| |
| fam. PIERIDAE |
| 3. Pieris brassicae |
| 4. Artogeia rapae |
| 5. Artogeia napi |
| 6. Gonepteryx rhamni |
| 7. Colias hyale |
| 8. Colias alfacariensis |
| 9. Colias crocea |
| 10. Leptidea sinapis kompleks |
| |
| fam. SATYRIDAE |
| 11. Erebia aethiops |
| 12. Melanargia galathea |
| 13. Kantesia circe |
| 14. Minois dryas |
| 15. Aphantopus hyperantus |
| 16. Pararge aegeria |
| 17. Lasiommata maera |
| 18. Lasiommata megera |
| 19. Maniola jurtina |
| 20. Coenonympha glycerion |
| 21. Coenonympha pamphilus |
| |
| fam. NYMPHALIDAE |
| 22. Apatura iris |
| 23. Neptis sappho |
| 24. Vanessa atalanta |
| 25. Vanessa cardui |
| 26. Aglais urticae |
| 27. Inachis io |
| 28. Polygonia c-album |
| 29. Araschnia levana |
| 30. Mellicta athalia |
| 31. Melitaea phoebe |
| 32. Melitaea didyma |
| 33. Argynnis aglaja |
| 34. Argynnis adippe |
| 35. Argynnis paphia |
| 36. Brenthis daphne |
| 37. Clossiana selene |
| 38. Clossiana dia |
| 39. Issoria lathonia |
| fam. NEMOBIIDAE |
| 40. Haemaris lucina |
| |
| fam. LYCAENIDAE |
| 41. Satyrium w-album |
| 42. Lycaena vigaureae |
| 43. Lycaena tityrus |
| 44. Lycaena alciphron |
| 45. Lycaena phleas |
| 46. Lycaena dispar |
| 47. Palaeochrysophanus hippothoe |
| 48. Leptotes pirithous |
| 49. Everes argiades |
| 50. Celastrina argiolus |
| 51. Pseudophilotes vicram |
| 52. Maculinea alcon |
| 53. Maculinea arion |
| 54. Maculinea telejus |
| 55. Maculinea nausithous |
| 56. Plebejus idas |
| 57. Plebejus argyrognomon |
| 58. Plebejus argus |
| 59. Aricia agestis |
| 60. Cyaniris semiargus |
| 61. Polyommatus icarus |
| |
| fam. HESPERIIDAE |
| 62. Erynnis tages |
| 63. Carcharodus alceae |
| 64. Pyrgus malvae |
| 65. Heteropterus morpheus |
| 66. Thymelicus lineola |
| 67. Thymelicus sylvestris |
| 68. Ochlodes venatus |
| 69. Hesperia comma |
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Najboj nepricakovana je najdba modrina Leptothes pirithous, ki se na svojih selitvah le redko podaja
tako dalec od morja iz toplega junega Sredozemlja. Zato ne
preseneca, da je to prva najdba za Prekmurje. Bolj pogosti
selivci so Colias crocea, Vanessa cardui in Issoria
lathonia, ki se na svojih poteh redno pojavljajo na celotnem
obmocju Gorickega. Poleg Leptothes pirithous so bili prvic v Prekmurju opaeni
tudi modrini Satyrium w-album, Pseudophilotes
vicram in Lycaena alciphron, ki so v tem predelu
Slovenije vezani na izjemno suha, grmovnata travica. Tu
najdemo tudi vrsto
Aricia
agestis, ki jo za Goricko brez
natancne navedbe lokalitete navaja e J. Carnelutti.
Iz naravovarstvenega stalica sta e posebej
zanimivi najdbi modrinov Maculinea arion in Maculinea
alcon, ki ju na Gorickem nismo pricakovali. Obe vrsti v
poznih stadijih gosenice za svoj obstoj potrebujeta tudi mravlje,
ki za gosenice skrbijo do zabubljenja. Maculinea arion je
vezana na suhe travnike z obilico materine duice, ki je
hranilna rastlina njihovih zacetnih stadijev gosenic. Druga vrsta
je vezana na mocvirne travnike z mocvirskim svicem. Ker se
ta rastlina na Gorickem pojavlja zelo poredko in v majhnem
tevilu, je Maculinea alcon gotovo najbolj ogroena vrsta na tem
obmocju. Skupaj je
bilo na obmocju Gorickega najdeno kar sedem vrst modrinov iz
Rdecega seznama ogroenih vrst dnevnih metuljev Slovenije.
Med njimi velja omeniti mocvirsko vrsto Lycaena dispar,
ki se na Gorickem pojavlja tudi na dokaj suhih travnikih. Razen Maculinea
arion in Maculinea alcon, so vse ostale vrste na
obravnavanem obmocju dokaj pogoste in razirjene, kar
potrjuje veliko naravno vrednost Gorickega in potrebo po njegovi
trajni zaciti.