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: Bolotov, Ivan N., Mizin, Ivan A., Zheludkova, Alisa A., Aksenova, Olga V., Kolosova, Yulia S., Potapov, Grigory S., Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Gofarov, Mikhail Y.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2021
• Subjects: Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Papilionoidea; Nymphalidae; Nymphalis; Nymphalis xanthomelas; vagrant butterfly; climate warming; windborne insect migration; the Arctic Circle; Svalbard; Vaygach; Kolguev; Greenland; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Taymyr; Napi; Novaya Zemlya; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4635546; https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.44.62249

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...