ISBN: 978-80-7509-818-4 | ISBN online: 978-80-7509-817-7 | DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-817-7

Motýli (Lepidoptera) Jihomoravského kraje: komentovaný přehled druhů

Zdeněk Laštůvka, Aleš Laštůvka

A total of 3199 butterfly and moth species were registered in the South Moravian Region in the last approximately 200 years, 3034 of them occur in the area to date. About 240 species are only known from this region in Czechia. The history of butterfly and moth research in the South Moravian Region is recapitulated and the natural conditions are briefly characterized in the introductory chapters. A systematic list of all registered species is supplemented by references to the first and sometimes to the subsequent records, occurrence sites or areas are added for more important species. The following chapters are devoted to the most important species, to the temporal changes in species composition, to the characteristic species of individual habitats, to the species originally described from the region (13), alien species (44), legally protected species (33), and species included in the Red List of Invertebrates in Czechia (348). Since the middle of the 20th century, about 10% of butterflies and 1% of large moth species with the exception of Geometridae and Noctuidae have disappeared from the region. In the families Geometridae and Noctuidae, the number of newcomers exceeds the number of vanished species. The declining trend is still accelerating in the last two decades, and even more than at the species level, it is reflected in the significant decrease in the number of individuals. 149 important species are shown in photos or pictures.

Keywords: butterflies and moths, southern Moravia, checklist, important species, habitats, protection

1. edition, Published: 2021, online: 2021, publisher: Mendelova univerzita v Brně