ISBN: 978-80-7509-945-7 | ISBN online: 978-80-7509-946-4 | DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-946-4

Motýli (Lepidoptera) Česka – aktualizovaný seznam druhů / Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of Czechia – updated list of species

Zdeněk Laštůvka, Jan Liška, Jan Šumpich

A total of 3,530 butterfly and moth species have been registered in Czechia, with an increase of about 120 species since the previous species checklist in 2011, i.e. an average of about 10 per year. About 20 previously counted but insufficiently documented species were removed from the list. Of the total, 111 species were recorded once, i.e. there is no evidence of their former or current permanent presence in the territory. About 70 species are very likely to have disappeared from Czechia. Thus, current occurrence of about 3350 species can be calculated. 3109 species are known from Bohemia and 3380 species from Moravia (including Czech Silesia). About 1200 (35%) species are more or less widespread throughout the territory, while about 700 species (21%) are highly local, known only from a few localities. About 410 other species (12 %) are only known from the Czech or Moravian thermophytic zones (thermophyticum). Of these, more than 200 reach the northernmost extent of their total or central European known range in the Moravian thermophyticum. Only about 40 species (just over 1%) are restricted to the higher mountain areas (oreophyticum). In addition to the species list, brief chapters on species disappearance and spread, disposable records, non-native species (about 50), specially protected and endangered species, the creation of the Czech national names, and on new insights into Lepidoptera phylogeny and classification are added. Records of some species are briefly commented.

Keywords: butterflies, moths, Bohemia, Moravia, Czech part of Silesia, list of species, comments

1. edition, Published: 2023, online: 2023, publisher: Mendelova univerzita v Brně