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Title Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Consectetur Volume 24: 15–17 METAMORPHOSIS ISSN 1018–6490 (PRINT) LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA ISSN 2307–5031 (ONLINE) BOOK REVIEW Conservation assessment of butterflies of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland: Red List and Atlas - Mecenero et al. (eds) Published online: 1 August 2013 Christopher K. Willis Copyright © Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa CITATION AND DETAILS collections, focussed field surveys as well as Mecenero, S., Ball, J.B., Edge, D.A., Hamer, M.L., contributions from 189 citizen scientists that Henning, G.A., Krüger, M., Pringle, E.L., submitted photographs to the virtual museum (VM) Terblanche, R.F. & Williams, M.C. (eds). 2013. between 2007 and the assessment cut-off date of 20 Conservation assessment of butterflies of South July 2010. It also includes data collected during Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland: Red List and atlas. South Africa’s first butterfly census. Saftronics (Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg & Animal Much thought went into the design and layout of the Demography Unit, Cape Town. 676 pages. Hard Red List and Atlas with its attractive covers (both cover, 305 x 215mm. ISBN 978-0-620-55357-5. inside and outside). It is appropriate that a Available from www.netbooks.co.za. Price: R995 photograph of South Africa’s proposed national incl. VAT. butterfly and sole pollinator of the Red Disa (Disa uniflora), the Table Mountain Beauty (Aeropetes REVIEW tulbaghia), should appear on the front cover of this After Pennington’s Butterflies of southern Africa superb publication. (Dickson & Kroon, 1978; Pringle et al., 1994), this The book consists of two parts, 10 chapters (Part 1: book, dedicated to the late John Joannou (1949– Chapters 1 to 5; Part 2: Chapters 6 to 10), and five 2013), represents arguably the most significant appendices, followed by a detailed list of references, publication on the conservation of South Africa’s a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a glossary as butterflies in the past 20 years. It represents the well as three indexes. A range of authors, only half culmination of the highly successful Southern of whom were listed as editors, contributed towards African Butterfly Conservation Assessment the compilation of the 10 chapters. (SABCA) Project, a three-way partnership between The book starts with a 13-page Systematic List the South African National Biodiversity Institute comprising a list of taxa with associated common (SANBI), the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa names (English and Afrikaans), conservation status (LepSoc) and the Animal Demography Unit (ADU) and page number where each taxon can be found in of the University of Cape Town. This Red List and the book. As with the IUCN Red List categories Atlas follows the publication of the South African repeated on the bottom of each page of the Red Data Book: butterflies (Henning et al., 2009), Systematic List, it would be useful in a future which also used the latest IUCN categories and revision to have the header row repeated on the top criteria. The main difference between these of each page. publications is that Henning et al. (2009) was The Systematic List is followed by a list of credits, predominantly based on expert knowledge, whereas acknowledging both editors and authors involved in the Red List and Atlas uses a large number of newly the production of the book, followed by a compiled/collected locality data gathered during the comprehensive list of photographers grouped either SABCA Project. Also, for the first time, distribution by single chapter or groups of chapters. The detailed maps, using quarter degree grid squares (QDGS), are ‘Acknowledgements’ section reflects the many presented for all butterflies in the region. individuals and organisations that either contributed The SABCA Project (2007–2011; see data or assisted with the management of the project. http://sabca.adu.org.za), which covered South A brief description of each of the organisations, both Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (hereafter referred to national and international, that played a significant as the ‘atlas region’) in its geographical coverage, part in the publication is listed before the Foreword was a remarkable project involving numerous (provided by Prof. Tim New of La Trobe University, institutions, organisations and individuals. Funding Melbourne, Australia) and Message from the SANBI for the project was generously provided by the Board Chair, Mr Tami Sokutu. As mentioned by Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation Prof. New, the book “will surely enter the panoply (NORAD) via the Department of Environmental of classic compilations that influence how insects Affairs and SANBI. Under guidance of the SABCA will withstand current onslaughts on their natural Project Coordinator, Silvia Mecenero, data were environments.” sourced from the digitisation of museum and other The first chapter (Introduction) in Part 1 describes the rationale and reasons for using butterflies as Willis/ Metamorphosis 24: 15–17 16 ideal invertebrate candidates for Red List publication. Family, genus and species accounts are assessments, the objectives and organisation of the presented in the following order: Hesperiidae SABCA Project and background to the development (Chapter 6; 107 taxa), Papilionidae (Chapter 7; 18 of the Red List and Atlas. taxa), Pieridae (Chapter 8; 49 taxa), Nymphalidae The second chapter provides a description of data (Chapter 9; 226 taxa) and Lycaenidae (Chapter 10; and methods used in preparing the Red List and 394 taxa). Lycaenid species comprise 48% of the Atlas. The chapter includes summary statistics, total species and 50% of the taxa of the atlas region. sources of distribution data, number of records in the There are 50 threatened lycaenid taxa in the atlas SABCA database, number of accepted and historical region, representing 83% of all the current records in the SABCA database, and proportion of threatened taxa in the region. 271 taxa are endemic the area of a region (atlas region, country or South to the atlas region. It is consequently noted that this African province) which has no butterfly records. family should be given the highest conservation The total number of records in the SABCA database priority. used for the atlas region was 337 486, representing Genus, species and subspecies accounts are each 794 taxa from 2 008 QDGSs. No records were ordered alphabetically within their respective available from 29.4% of the atlas region – indicating taxonomic grouping. For all species and subspecies that there is still much need for further butterfly accounts, information is presented in a standardised exploration and surveys across South Africa, format that includes, amongst others, the type Lesotho and Swaziland. Three maps of the atlas locality, vegetation description (either biome, region depicting coverage and richness of taxa in the bioregion or vegetation type), larval host plants and atlas region, at a QDGS scale from three time ant association (for threatened taxa only), periods: (a) the entire database, (b) data from 1980 distribution map at a QDGS scale and divided into onwards and (c) data from 2007 to the assessment three time periods (pre-1980, 1980–2006, and 2007– deadline of 20 July 2010, provide an interesting 2010; as well as undated and historical records graphic representation of atlas records. The chapter indicating where a taxon has gone locally extinct), closes with a description of the limitations photographs of male upper- and undersides of associated with the conservation assessments and pinned specimens, as well as a table of monthly distribution maps. occurrence, with each month divided into four The third chapter provides an insightful and quarters. Unless otherwise indicated, third photos comprehensive analysis of butterfly conservation in show the female upper side in cases where there is southern Africa, and is well illustrated with 10 strong sexual dimorphism. For taxa of conservation tables, three distribution maps and a bar graph. concern, images of the following are included, Areas covered include a comparison between past where available: live adult, habitat, larva with and present assessments, analysis of Red Listed and possible ant association and larval host food. endemic taxa, as well as threats and sub-threats to Five appendices follow on from Part 2. Appendix 1 southern African butterflies. The quality of data and describes detailed data capture and processing knowledge base used for conservation assessments methods used during SABCA. Appendix 2 lists the of butterflies in the atlas region has improved IUCN categories and criteria (taken from the IUCN, considerably over the past 20 years. What is of 2001) used for the Red List categories of Critically major conservation concern, however, is the fact that Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) and Vulnerable there has been a steady increase in the number of (VU). Appendix 3 provides a table listing the taxa taxa qualifying for the higher risk categories of which are Extinct (three taxa) and those which are of Critically Endangered and Endangered over the past conservation concern. Appendix 4 lists the endemic two decades. taxa of the atlas region which are all classified as The fourth chapter reflects on future priorities for Least Concern (LC) but not in a rarity category, also butterfly conservation and research. It includes indicating their presence in each country of the atlas mention of the custodianship programme, known as region and in each province of South Africa. The Custodians of Rare and Endangered Lepidoptera fifth and final Appendix 5 lists the biomes and (COREL), established by LepSoc to monitor and vegetation types (based on Mucina & Rutherford, conduct research into the atlas region’s Critically 2006) where the threatened taxa (CR, CR–PE, EN Endangered butterfly taxa and one moth taxon and VU) occur. (Edge, 2011). The publication ends with 19 pages of references The fifth and last chapter of Part 1 of the publication (933 references are included in this section), a list of provides recommendations for the use of the Red acronyms and abbreviations, glossary and three List and Atlas by conservation practitioners.
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