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Final Project Report (To Be Submitted by 30Th September 2016) Final Project Report (to be submitted by 30th September 2016) Instructions: Document length: maximum 10 pages, excluding this cover page and the last page on project tags. Start with an abstract (max 1 page). Final report text: Do not forget to mention your methodology; the people involved (who, how many, what organization they are from – if applicable); and the expected added value for biodiversity, society and the company. Finally, state whether the results of your project can be implemented at a later stage, and please mention the ideal timing and estimated costs of implementation. Annexes are allowed but will not be taken into account by the jury and must be sent separately. Word/PDF Final Report files must be less than 10 MB. If you choose to submit your final report in your local language, you are required to also upload your final report in English if you wish to take part in the international competition. To be validated, your file must be uploaded to the Quarry Life Award website before 30th September 2016 (midnight, Central European Time). To do so, please log in, click on ‘My account’/ ‘My Final report’. In case of questions, please liaise with your national coordinator. 1. Contestant profile . Contestant name: Moldovan Ștefan . Contestant occupation: Ornithologist . University / Organisation Romanian Ornithological Society . E-mail: . Phone (incl. country code): . Number of people in your team: 7 2. Project overview Title: Search for the critically endangered Apollo Butterfly at Bicaz Chei Quarry Contest: Quarry Life Award Quarry name: Bicaz Chei Quarry Prize category: ☐ Education and Raising Awareness (select all appropriate) X Habitat and Species Research ☐ Biodiversity Management ☐ Student Project ☐ Beyond Quarry Borders 1/3 Abstract The Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo Linnaues 1758) is a post-glacial relict, considered extinct from the Romanian fauna by most lepideptorologists. The endemic subspecies of the Oriental Carpathians (Parnassius apollo transsylvanicus, Schweitzer 1912) has been recorded for the last time in 1996 at Bicaz Gorge, just across the road of Bicaz Chei Quarry, in the Cheile Șugăului-Munticelu Gorge. The species inhabits rocky areas, gravels, limestone rich meadows and also quarries, where the adults can find the host plants for the larvae (Sedum species) and rich nectar sources for the adults. Due to the fact that in the past decades lepidopterologists had no access granted inside of the limits of Bicaz Chei Quarry, the purpose of the research was exploring the possibility of a remnant population of Apollo butterfly (which was known historically to inhabit multiple areas of Cheile Bicazului-Hășmaș National Park) inside the quarry (if potential host plant species oft he larvae are found within the perimeters of the quarry) and to locate suitable habitat fragments in the adjacent areas which could sustain a population of Apollo butterfly for a relocation, in case that a viable population will be found in the proximity of the quarry. Between May and August 2016 a team of 7 persons have been searching for the Apollo butterfly and the habitat types with the host plant (Sedum species), respectively rich nectar sources for the adults (species of Cirsium, Scabiosa, Carduus, Centaurea, etc.) Neither adults nor larvae (caterpillars) were found within the perimeter of the quarry, nevertheless several populations of the potential host plats (Sedum telephium subsp. maximum = Sedum maximum, Sedum hispanicum) have been identified and charted. The search for the butterfly was extended to the territory of the Bicaz Chei- Hășmaș National Park, to the stations where the species has been recorded in the previous decades (Cheile Șugăului – Munticelu Nature Reserve, Suhardu Mic, Piatra Poienii, Cupaș Valley, Cheile Bicazului Gorge, etc.), but without positive results. At the vast majority of this stations only patches of Sedum maximum and Sedum hispanicum were identified, which suggests that most probably the host plant for the Apollo butterfly was S. maximum not S. album which could have been erroneously listed as the host plant in most of the Romanian publications (Rákosy 2013). The fact that Parnassius apollo transsylvanicus might belong to the telephiophagous group of subspecies (those of specialized for feeding on S. maximum, S. fabaria and S. telephium) has already been suggested before in the international literature concerning the species (Pekarsky 1953, in Nakonienczny et al. 2007). A less likely alternative scenario would be that the subspecies in question uses as feeding source for the larvae S. hispanicum, a species which was found in great numbers in the area and which can be easily misidentified for S. album. The less developed vegetation cover from the interior of the quarry can not host a high diversity of day flying butterflies, thus during the three months of the search, we have identified only 39 species of butterflies. However, among these, we identified two vulnerable and protected species of day flying butterflies. Both of these are myrmecophilous species of the genus Maculinea, with a highly complex life cycle. Maculinea arion ligurica has been recorded in areas inhabited by its host plant, Origanum vulgare, and Maculinea alcon xerophila has been identified in the egg stage on its host plant, Gentiana cruciata subsp. phlogifolia. 2 /27 Final report 1. Introduction The Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo, Linnaeus 1758) is one of the most endangered species of day flying butterflies from Romania. In the Catalog of Romanian Lepidoptera (Rákosy, Goia & Kovács 2003), 13 years ago, it has been considered an endangered species (CR, Critically Endangered), but recently is considered an extinct species (EX; Extinct) from the country`s fauna (Rákosy 2013). However, the last documented record of the species is from 1996 (Vizauer 2010, Székely pers.com). From time to time in the media are reported news of a more recent sighting, but without conclusive evidence. The species is protected by international laws: Habitat Directive, Bern Convention, CITES. In Europe is considered only a near threatened species (NT, Near Threatened). Among the most threatening factors for the Apollo butterfly are mentioned over-collection (van Swaay & al. 2010a), global warming (Rákosy 2000), but also shifts in land use (Rákosy 2013). However, we do not fully understand the causes of the local extinction of the populations from Romania. In general, the Apollo butterfly is a dweller of the large mountainous regions of Europe: Spain, Andorra, Southern France, Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, South of Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, the Balkan Peninsula (Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia); in Easter Europe (Russia, Ukraine) and in the North of the continent (South Norway, Sweden and Finland). The boundaries of its distribution are toward East Asia, up to Tien-Shan Mountains, Siberia and Mongolia, from the North of Ural Mountains to Transcaucasia, Turkey and Middle East. The overall population of Apollo butterfly is distributed on the Eurasian continent on a surface of 2700 x 7800 km (Nakonienczny, Kędziorski & Michalczyk 2007). The taxon is considered extinct from Romania, Latvia and Belarus (van Swaay & al. 2010b). An obvious decline (above 30%) has been recorded in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. A decline on a smaller scale (6-30%) has been reported from Bulgaria, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Therefore, we can state that the populations from Europe are in a general decline, the overall population numbers and their size are falling (van Swaay & al. 2010b). The causes of this decline at the continental level are multiple and complex, and can be classified in three major categories (Nakonienczny, Kędziorski & Michalczyk 2007): 1. natural factors, which comprises the long term climate changes, natural succession of habitats, and short term wheatear anomalies; 2. anthropogenic factors (pollution, direct impact on habitats), over collecting; and 3. intrapopulational factors: negative genetic processes in small and isolated populations. The species includes many described subspecies, from which two are considered as valid taxa from Romania: Parnassius apollo transsylvanicus Shweitzer, 1912 from the Oriental Carpathians (Tulgheș, jud.Harghita) and Parnassius apollo jaraensis Kertész 1922 from the Occidental Carpathians (Valea Ierii, jud. Cluj). There are several other records from the Southern Carpathians and Dobrudja, but these taxa have gone extinct before they were described officially at infraspecific level. (Rákosy 2013, Székely 2008). Several authors tend to believe that 3 /27 in Romania there is a single subspecies of P. apollo (Niculescu 1961, Ruști & Dragomirescu 1991) while others consider that the two above mention taxa are valid and present subspecies (Popescu-Gorj 1987; Rákosy, Goia & Kovács 2003). The high number of infraspecific taxa (subspecies, forms and aberrations) is a result of long term isolation of different fragments of populations and their adaptation to a large variety of stationary conditions. The Apollo butterfly inhabits the mountainous regions, on sunny slopes with scarce vegetation, especially on rocky habitats. According to van Swaay & al. (2010b), in Europe the species inhabits alpine and subalpine meadows (23%), dry fields on limestone (19%), rocky areas (11%), slopes and gravels (9%), evergreen forests (7%) and deciduous forests (7%). However, their ecology
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