New and interesting records of Lepidoptera from the Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia, in 2000–2009

• Published in: Entomologica Fennica
• Main Authors: Kozlov, Mikhail V., Kullberg, Jaakko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: This journal is published jointly by the Entomological Society of Finland, the Lepidopterological Society of Finland, the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku. 2011
• Subjects: Kola Peninsula; Murmansk; Murmanskaya Oblast’; kola peninsula; Murmanskaya
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/entomolfennica/article/view/3933; https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.3933

Extensive sampling during 2000–2009 resulted in discovery of 65 species of Lepidoptera that have not been reported from the Kola Peninsula (i.e., Murmanskaya oblast of Russia) in our earlier publications. Critical revision of data published in several papers by the Russian scientists and in the comprehensive Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia added further 59 species to the regional fauna (among which we controlled records of 15 species), while 60 species are excluded as erroneous or doubtful records. We also confirmed records of 12 species which were known from old publications only, and reported interesting findings of 71 rare species that expand their distribution range or demonstrate interesting ecological patterns. The fauna of moths and butterflies of the Murmansk region now totals 813 species.