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Red BookBook ofof Butterflies in inTurkey Turkey Evrim Karaçetin & Hilary J. Welch Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey Karaçetin, E. & Welch, H.J. 2011 Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey Doğa Koruma Merkezi, Ankara, Turkey Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr] © Doğa Koruma Merkezi (DKM) February 2011 Ortadoğu Sitesi, 1589. Sok. No:4, Yüzüncüyıl, Ankara / Turkey Tel: (312) 287 8144 Fax: (312) 286 6820 www.dkm.org.tr [email protected] Maps: Mustafa Durmuş, Alper Ertürk Editing: Geoff Welch, Burcu Meltem Arık Akyüz Graphic design: Güngör Genç Reproduction of this publication for educational or other non- commercial purposes is authorized without prior written permission from Doğa Koruma Merkezi, provided that the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of this publication for resale or other commercial purposes or use any part of the contents is prohibited without prior written permission from Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Citation: Karaçetin, E. and Welch, H.J. (2011). Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey. Ankara, Turkey: Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr]. Cover photographs Front: Euphydryas aurinia, Anthocharis cardamines, All photographs used in this publication remain the property of Polyommatus menalcas ©Onat Başbay : Lycaena dispar the original copyright holder (see individual captions for details). ©Bahar Bilgen : probable Polyommatus artvinensis Photographs should not be reproduced or used in other contexts without ©Frédéric Carbonell : Polyommatus bollandi ©Dominique written permission from the copyright holder. Dumont : Polyommatus caeruleus, Polyommatus theresiae ©Hesselbarth et al. (1995) : Polyommatus merhaba The Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey is financed by the Netherlands ©Evrim Karaçetin : Erebia ottomana ©Matt Rowlings Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. The Ministry is not responsible for the content of this book. Back: Boloria graeca ©Didem Ambarlı : Parnassius nordmanni ©Adnan Ataç : Polyommatus bellargus ©Onat Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in Başbay : Argynnis pandora ©Ahmet Baytaş : Polyommatus this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views lycius ©Frédéric Carbonell : Polyommatus dama ©Evrim of Butterfly Conservation Europe, Erciyes University or the International Karaçetin : Danaus chrysippus ©Mustafa Sözen : Zerynthia Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). caucasica, Limenitis reducta ©Hilary & Geoff Welch Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey Evrim Karaçetin & Hilary J. Welch Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey Doğa Koruma Merkezi – Nature Conservation Centre DKM works in partnership with government, NGOs, research institutions, experts and volunteers, aiming to develop national capacity and a sound scientific and technical basis for effective nature conservation. It encourages and facilitates the systematic collection and analysis of biodiversity and other data, and uses these both to identify priority areas for conservation, and to develop sustainable resource-use plans which will benefit biodiversity and people. DKM is the Turkish representative of Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), an umbrella organization for a network of partners and individuals which aims both to stimulate and co-ordinate conservation action for butterflies, moths and their habitats across Europe. BCE and Dutch Butterfly Conservation are partnering DKM in the project Developing a basis for the active conservation of Turkey’s butterflies (2009-11) funded by the Dutch Government’s BBI-Matra programme. http://www.bc-europe.org Evrim Karaçetin began to develop an interest in butterflies in 1996 when she was a Biology undergraduate at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, a university with a 4,000 ha campus famous for its rich diversity of butterflies. After completing her Masters she spent five years in the United States working on her PhD, studying Ecology and Botany under Oregon State University’s Environmental Science programme. On her return to Turkey she started her current job as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences at Erciyes University. Ever since she was a student, Evrim has been involved in many nature Alkan ©Hülya Evrim Karaçetin conservation projects, acting as volunteer, researcher, advisor and teacher. Since 2007 she has worked on butterfly projects with DKM and Hilary Welch. Together with Ahmet Baytaş she is co-author of Butterflies of Turkey Hand Book published by Doğa Derneği in 2008. Hilary Welch is a founder member of DKM and has been visiting Turkey, to enjoy the landscapes and watch birds, since 1989. For 35 years her interest in natural history has developed and broadened as she has worked in nature conservation as a freelance consultant and volunteer, in the UK and abroad. In 2004 she moved from the UK to Turkey, and here a serious interest in butterflies began to develop, fuelled by the rich diversity of species and the publication of A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Turkey, by Ahmet Baytaş, in autumn 2007. She has been delighted to be able to combine her knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with that of Evrim and many other experts to develop the red list and this book, which she hopes will make a concrete contribution to the conservation of butterflies in Turkey. ©Geoff & Hilary Welch Welch Hilary J. Karaçetin, E. and Welch, H.J. (2011). Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey. Ankara, Turkey: Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr] Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey Contents Acknowledgements Foreword 1 The Importance of Red Lists 2 A Short History of Red Listing in Turkey 4 Butterflies: Beautiful & Important 6 The Process of Compiling the Red List 8 Threatened Species 17 Data Deficient Species 18 Species Assessments 19 Regionally Extinct 20 Critically Endangered 21 Endangered 27 Vulnerable 57 Near Threatened 73 Data Deficient 95 Data Deficient Agrodiaetus Blues 106 NA (Not Applicable) Species 108 NE (Not Evaluated) Species 108 Revised Checklist of Butterflies in Turkey 109 Bibliography 117 IUCN Guidelines: Categories and Criteria 122 Province Map of Turkey 125 Tables Table 1. Main references, used for almost every species and assessment 11 Table 2. Data sources and formats 12 Table 3. Red List Working Group members 14 Table 4. Species assessment steps 16 Table 5. The complete list of Regionally Extinct (RE), Threatened (CR, EN, VU), 17 Near Threatened (NT) species in Turkey Table 6. The complete list of Data Deficient (DD) species in Turkey 18 Table 7. Data Deficient (DD) species in the subgenus Agrodiaetus 107 Table 8. The species categorized as Not Applicable (NA) 108 Table 9. The species that were Not Evaluated (NE) 108 Table 10. Revised checklist 109 Karaçetin, E. and Welch, H.J. (2011). Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey. Ankara, Turkey: Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr] Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey When embarking on this red list we knew that to produce the solidly researched document, which was our aim, we were going to be reliant Acknowledgements on the willingness of many people to share with us their time and expert knowledge. Nevertheless, we were not prepared for the widespread enthusiasm and generosity we met with. Almost without exception data, photographs, knowledge, ideas and opinions were freely shared; all added immeasurable authority and value to the final assessments. The Evrim Karaçetin & Hilary J. Welch comment of Dominique Dumont, who contributed to the assessment of Bolland’s Blue (Polyommatus bollandi) was typical of the sentiments we encountered: ‘I’m happy to give as much information as possible to people who are studying my dear butterflies’. Production of this red list has thus only been possible through the assistance of a large number of people. Contributions have been many and varied: sharing expert knowledge, contributing expert opinion, assessing species’ accounts, providing butterfly records and photographs, tracking down and scanning obscure papers, collating, inputting and checking data and maps, and attending meetings and workshops. To everyone we express our sincere thanks. Whilst we take full responsibility for any errors or omissions in this red list, everyone listed below can take credit for the authority of the final product, which we sincerely hope ©DKM Archive will prove valuable in guiding butterfly conservation in Turkey for the next ten years and beyond. Our sincere apologies to anyone we have inadvertently omitted from the list: Hülya Alkan, Didem Ambarlı, Hüseyin Ambarlı, Mukadder Arslan, Adnan Ataç, Ali Atahan, Özge Balkız, Onat Başbay, Ahmet Baytaş, Doğa Derneği, Dubi Benyamini, Bahar Bilgen, Can Bilgin, Frédéric Carbonell, Yahya Emin Demirci, Dominique Dumont, Ümit Durdu, Mustafa Durmuş, Wolfgang Eckweiler, Süleyman Ekşioğlu, Alper Ertürk, Halil Fırat, Bernard Fransen, Asuman Aydın Gem, Ian Green (Green Tours), Wolfgang ten Hagen, Münir Hançer, Emre Kaytan, Ersoy Kılıç, Yeşim Kınıkoğlu, Bernard Kranenbarg, Fatih Köleli, Atila Küçükala, Bahtiyar Kurt, Torben Larsen, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Dirk Didem Ambarlı and Ümit Durdu studying butterflies in Maes, Alireza Naderi, Vazrick Nazari, Karen Nichols, Aslı Nur Bakan, Central Anatolia, following in the footsteps of a long line Harry van Oorschot, Kadir Özdel, Özge Özden, Willy de Prins, Matt of curious naturalists –amateur and professional– who, Rowlings, Szabolcs Sáfián, Turgut Sarıgül, Onur Sayar, Klaus Schurian, over the last two centuries have collected the data on Josef Settele, Paul Severns, Simon Spencer, Oktay Subaşı, Chris van which this Red Book is based.