Long-distance dispersal of migrant butterflies to the Arctic Ocean islands, with a record of Nymphalis xanthomelas at the northern edge of Novaya Zemlya (76.95°N)

• Published in: Nota Lepidopterologica
• Main Authors: Ivan N. Bolotov, Ivan A. Mizin, Alisa A. Zheludkova, Olga V. Aksenova, Yulia S. Kolosova, Grigory S. Potapov, Vitaly M. Spitsyn, Mikhail Y. Gofarov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2021
• Subjects: Lepidoptera; vagrant butterfly; climate warming; w; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Taymyr; Napi; Novaya Zemlya; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.44.62249; https://doaj.org/article/44dbf3429db24a25ad6c297417b81b2c

Although migrant butterflies are rare (or sporadically seen) guests on the Arctic Ocean islands, there is a slowly growing dataset on repeated occurrences of these insects in insular tundra and polar deserts. Altogether six long-distance migrant butterfly species were found to cross wide marine barr...