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Da Guiné-Bissau. Ii. Papilionidae E Pieridae
Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, n1 41 (2007) : 223–236. NOVOS DADOS SOBRE OS LEPIDÓPTEROS DIURNOS (LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERIOIDEA E PAPILIONOIDEA) DA GUINÉ-BISSAU. II. PAPILIONIDAE E PIERIDAE A. Bivar-de-Sousa1, L.F. Mendes2 & S. Consciência3 1 Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, Apartado 8221, 1803-001 Lisboa, Portugal. – [email protected] 2 Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT-IP), JBT, Zoologia, R. da Junqueira, 14, 1300-343 Lisboa, Portugal. – [email protected] 3 Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT-IP), JBT, Zoologia, R. da Junqueira, 14, 1300-343 Lisboa, Portugal. – [email protected] Resumo: Estudam-se amostras de borboletas diurnas das famílias Papilionidae e Pieridae colhidas ao longo da Guiné-Bissau, no que corresponde à nossa segunda contribuição para o conhecimento das borboletas diurnas deste país. Na sua maioria o material encontra-se depositadas na colecção aracno-entomológica do IICT e na colecção particular do primeiro co-autor, tendo-se reexaminado as amostras determinadas por Bacelar (1949). Em simultâneo, actualizam-se os conhecimentos sobre a fauna de lepidópteros ropalóceros do Parque Natural das Lagoas de Cufada (PNLC). A distribuição geográfica conhecida de cada uma das espécies no país é representada em mapas UTM com quadrícula de 10 Km de lado. Referem-se três espécies de Papilionidae e um género e quatro espécies de Pieridae como novidades faunísticas para a Guiné-Bissau e três espécies de Papilionidae e dois géneros e sete espécies de Pieridae são novas para o PNLC, no total das trinta e uma espécies até ao momento encontradas nestas famílias (nove, e vinte e duas, respectivamente) no país. Palavras chave: Lepidoptera, Papilionidae, Pieridae, distribuição geográfica, Guiné-Bissau. -
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Page LIST OF ACRONYMS a EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Scope of Study 1 1.2 Background – Volta River Authority 2 1.3 Proposed Aboadze-Volta Transmission Line Project (AVTP) 3 1.4 Legal, Regulatory and Policy Considerations 5 1.5 Future developments by VRA 8 2.0 Description of proposed development 10 2.1 Pre-Construction Activities 11 2.2 Construction Phase Activities 12 2.3 Operational Phase Activities 17 2.3.1 Other Operational Considerations 20 3.0 Description of Existing Environments 21 3.1 Bio-Physical Environment 21 3.1.1 Climate 21 3.1.2 Flora 25 3.1.3 Fauna 35 3.1.4 Water Resources 43 3.1.5 Geology and Soils 44 3.1.6 General Land Use 51 3.2 Socio-Economic/Cultural Environment 51 3.2.1 Methodology 53 3.2.2 Profiles of the Districts in the Project Area 54 3.2.2(a) Shama - Ahanta East Metropolitan Area 54 3.2.2(b) Komenda - Edina - Eguafo - Abirem (KEEA) District 58 i 3.2.2(c) Mfantseman District 61 3.2.2(d) Awutu-Effutu-Senya District 63 3.2.2(e) Tema Municipal Area 65 3.2.2(f) Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese 68 3.2.2(g) Ga District 71 3.2.2(h) Gomoa District 74 3.3 Results of Socio-Economic Surveys 77 (Communities, Persons and Property) 3.3.1 Information on Affected Persons and Properties 78 3.3.1.1 Age Distribution of Affected Persons 78 3.3.1.2 Gender Distribution of Affected Persons 79 3.3.1.3 Marital Status of Affected Persons 80 3.3.1.4 Ethnic Composition of Afected Persons 81 3.3.1.5 Household Size/Dependents of Affected Persons 81 3.3.1.6 Religious backgrounds of Affected Persons 82 3.3.2 Economic Indicators -
DNA Barcoding Cannot Reliably Identify Species of the Blowfly Genus Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
DNA barcoding cannot reliably identify species of the blowfly genus Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae). T. L. Whitworth, R. D. Dawson, Hélène Magalon, E. Baudry To cite this version: T. L. Whitworth, R. D. Dawson, Hélène Magalon, E. Baudry. DNA barcoding cannot reli- ably identify species of the blowfly genus Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae).. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society, The, 2007, 274 (1619), pp.1731-1739. 10.1098/rspb.2007.0062. hal-00941689 HAL Id: hal-00941689 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00941689 Submitted on 6 May 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. DNA barcoding cannot reliably identify species of the blowfly genus Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) T. L. Whitworth1, R. D. Dawson2, H. Magalon3 and E. Baudry4,* 1Washington State University, 2533 Inter Avenue, Puyallup, WA 98372, USA 2University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, Canada 3Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Universite´ Paris VI, Paris 75252, France 4Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Universite´ Paris-Sud, Baˆtiment 362, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France In DNA barcoding, a short standardized DNA sequence is used to assign unknown individuals to species and aid in the discovery of new species. -
Wolbachia Endosymbiont Infection in Two Indian Butterflies and Female-Biased Sex Ratio in the Red Pierrot, Talicada Nyseus
Wolbachia endosymbiont infection in two Indian butterflies and female-biased sex ratio in the Red Pierrot, Talicada nyseus 1 2 1, KUNAL ANKOLA , DOROTHEA BRUECKNER and HP PUTTARAJU * 1Division of Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India 2Department of Biology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany *Corresponding author (Email, [email protected]) The maternally inherited obligate bacteria Wolbachia is known to infect various lepidopteran insects. However, so far only a few butterfly species harbouring this bacterium have been thoroughly studied. The current study aims to identify the infection status of these bacteria in some of the commonly found butterfly species in India. A total of nine butterfly species belonging to four different families were screened using PCR with Wolbachia-specific wsp and ftsZ primers. The presence of the Wolbachia super group ‘B’ in the butterflies Red Pierrot, Talicada nyseus (Guerin) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Blue Mormon, Papilio polymnestor Cramer (Papilionidae), is documented for the first time in India. The study also gives an account on the lifetime fecundity and female-biased sex ratio in T. nyseus, suggesting a putative role for Wolbachia in the observed female-biased sex ratio distortion. [Ankola K, Brueckner D and Puttaraju HP 2011 Wolbachia endosymbiont infection in two Indian butterflies and female-biased sex ratio in the Red Pierrot, Talicada nyseus. J. Biosci. 36 845–850] DOI:10.1007/s12038-011-9149-3 1. Introduction infected by Wolbachia. It has been shown that the presence of particular clades of Wolbachia cause feminization and The maternally inherited endosymbiotic α–proteobacteria cytoplasmic incompatibility in the common grass yellow called Wolbachia is known to infect 15%–75% of insect butterfly, Eurema hecabe (Hiroki et al. -
The Genus Acraea (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) - Peter Hendry
The genus Acraea (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) - Peter Hendry With the recent migration to Australia of the Tawny Coster (Acraea terpsicore (Linnaeus, 1758)), (see Creature Feature this issue), I thought it might be timely to take a look at the genus worldwide. It must be noted that due to a misidentification A. terpsicore had long been known as A. violae and many references in the literature and on the web refer to it as A. violae. As with much of the Lepidoptera the genus is in a state of flux, and has long been split into the subgenera Acraea (Acraea) and Acraea (Actinote). The genus is placed in the tribe Acraeini and until Harvey (1991) placed it in the subfamily Heliconiinae it was listed in the subfamily Acraeinae. Recent molecular work has made changes and a current listing of the tribe Acraeini, by Niklas Wahlberg, is available at http://www.nymphalidae.net/Classification/Acraeini.htm. It shows members of the old subgenus Acraea (Actinote) being placed in the genus Actinote, and the old subgenus Acraea (Acraea) becoming the genus Acraea with a subgenus Acraea (Bematistes). It also lists several Acraea as unplaced. This may further change as some believe the subgenus Acraea (Bematistes) will move to the genus Bematistes. The genus is primarily Afrotropical with only four species occurring outside this region, these being, Acraea andromacha (Fig. 1) A. meyeri (Fig. 10) A. moluccana and A. terpsicore. A fifth species the Yellow Coster Acraea (Actinote) issoria is now referred to the genus Actinote. Like many of the Nymphalidae the larvae feed on plants which contain cyanogens making the larvae and adults poisonous to predators. -
Check-List of the Butterflies of the Kakamega Forest Nature Reserve in Western Kenya (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea)
Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N. F. 25 (4): 161–174 (2004) 161 Check-list of the butterflies of the Kakamega Forest Nature Reserve in western Kenya (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) Lars Kühne, Steve C. Collins and Wanja Kinuthia1 Lars Kühne, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany; email: [email protected] Steve C. Collins, African Butterfly Research Institute, P.O. Box 14308, Nairobi, Kenya Dr. Wanja Kinuthia, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40658, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract: All species of butterflies recorded from the Kaka- list it was clear that thorough investigation of scientific mega Forest N.R. in western Kenya are listed for the first collections can produce a very sound list of the occur- time. The check-list is based mainly on the collection of ring species in a relatively short time. The information A.B.R.I. (African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi). Furthermore records from the collection of the National density is frequently underestimated and collection data Museum of Kenya (Nairobi), the BIOTA-project and from offers a description of species diversity within a local literature were included in this list. In total 491 species or area, in particular with reference to rapid measurement 55 % of approximately 900 Kenyan species could be veri- of biodiversity (Trueman & Cranston 1997, Danks 1998, fied for the area. 31 species were not recorded before from Trojan 2000). Kenyan territory, 9 of them were described as new since the appearance of the book by Larsen (1996). The kind of list being produced here represents an information source for the total species diversity of the Checkliste der Tagfalter des Kakamega-Waldschutzge- Kakamega forest. -
Tropical Phenology: Bi-Annual Rhythms and Interannual Variation in an Afrotropical Butterfly Assemblage 1, 2 3 4 ANU VALTONEN, FREERK MOLLEMAN, COLIN A
Tropical phenology: bi-annual rhythms and interannual variation in an Afrotropical butterfly assemblage 1, 2 3 4 ANU VALTONEN, FREERK MOLLEMAN, COLIN A. CHAPMAN, JAMES R. CAREY, 5 1 MATTHEW P. AYRES, AND HEIKKI ROININEN 1Department of Biology, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu FI-80101 Finland 2Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu EE-51014 Estonia 3Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada 4Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA 5Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 USA Citation: Valtonen, A., F. Molleman, C. A. Chapman, J. R. Carey, M. P. Ayres, and H. Roininen. 2013. Tropical phenology: bi-annual rhythms and interannual variation in an Afrotropical butterfly assemblage. Ecosphere 4(3):36. http://dx.doi. org/10.1890/ES12-00338.1 Abstract. Temporal variation and phenology of tropical insect communities and the role of environmental factors controlling this variation is poorly understood. A better understanding is needed, for example, to predict the effects of climate change on tropical insect communities and to assess the long- term persistence of tropical communities. We studied seasonal and inter-annual variation in tropical fruit- feeding butterflies by exploiting a unique 137-month abundance time series of .100 species, sampled at 22 locations in the medium altitude montane rain forest of Kibale National Park, western Uganda. Precipitation peaked twice per year, about 20 d after each equinox. Vegetation greenness peaked approximately 33 d later. Species richness and abundance of butterflies peaked about 2 and 3 months, respectively, after the greenness peak. -
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Research in Zoology 2015, 5(2): 32-37 DOI: 10.5923/j.zoology.20150502.02 First Records of Butterfly Diversity on Two Remote Islands on the Volta Lake of Ghana, the Largest Reservoir by Total Surface Area in the World Daniel Opoku Agyemang1, Daniel Acquah-Lamptey1,*, Roger Sigismond Anderson2, Rosina Kyerematen1,2 1Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 2African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Abstract The construction of the Akosombo Dam in Ghana for hydroelectric energy led to the creation of many islands on the Volta Lake. The biological diversity on these islands is unknown and so a rapid assessment was conducted in January 2014 as part as a region wide assessment to determine the butterfly diversity on two of these islands, Biobio and Agbasiagba. Diversity indices were computed for both islands using the Shannon-Weiner index, Margalef’s index for richness and Whittaker’s index for comparison of diversity between the two islands. A total of eight hundred and eighty-one (881) individual butterflies representing forty-five (45) species belonging to eight (8) families were recorded during the study. Thirty-nine (39) species of butterflies were recorded on Biobio island whiles twenty-eight (28) species were recorded on Agbasiagba. This was expected as the larger islands are expected to support more species than smaller ones, with Biobio island being relatively bigger than Agbasiagba. The shared species of butterflies on both islands were twenty-two (22) representing 48.9% of the total species accumulated. Indicator species like Junonia oenone, Danaus chrysippus and Papilio demodocus were also recorded indicating the degraded floral quality of the Islands. -
304 Genus Eresiomera Clench
AFROTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES 17th edition (2018). MARK C. WILLIAMS. http://www.lepsocafrica.org/?p=publications&s=atb Genus Eresiomera Clench, 1965 In Fox et al., 1965. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society No. 19: 290 (438 pp.). Type-species: Liptena isca Hewitson, by original designation. The genus Eresiomera belongs to the Family Lycaenidae Leach, 1815; Subfamily Poritiini Doherty, 1886; Tribe Liptenini Röber, 1892. The other genera in the Tribe Liptenini in the Afrotropical Region are Liptena, Obania, Kakumia, Tetrarhanis, Falcuna, Larinopoda, Micropentila, Pseuderesia, Eresina, Parasiomera, Citrinophila, Argyrocheila, Teriomima, Euthecta, Baliochila, Cnodontes, Congdonia, Eresinopsides, Toxochitona, Mimacraea and Mimeresia. Eresiomera (Pearlys) is a purely Afrotropical genus containing 17 species. Most species have a weak flight, usually slowly circling tree trunks high up, in the vicinity of Crematogaster ant nests (Larsen, 2005a). *Eresiomera bicolor (Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1890]) Western Pearly Pseuderesia bicolor Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1890]. In Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1887-92]. Rhopalocera exotica, being illustrations of new, rare and unfigured species of butterflies 1: 44 (183 pp.). London. Eresiomera bicolor Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1890. d’Abrera, 2009: 634. Eresiomera bicolor. Male. Left – upperside; right – underside. Bobiri Forest, Ghana. 23 May 2014. Images M.C.Williams ex Gardiner Collection. Eresiomera bicolor. Female. Left – upperside; right – underside. Bobiri Forest, Ghana. 24 May 2014. Images M.C.Williams ex Gardiner Collection. 1 Type locality: “Accu”. [= Accra? (Larsen, 2005a)]. Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria. Specific localities: Ghana – ?Accra (TL); Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary (Larsen et al., 2007); Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (Larsen et al., 2009). Habitat: Forest. Habits: A relatively common species, usually found in ones or twos (Larsen, 2005a). -
AGIDE Final Report
COMPTE RENDU FINAL D’EXECUTION DE PROJET I. INFORMATIONS DE BASE Nom de l’organisation : Association pour la Gestion Intégrée et Durable de l'Environnement (AGIDE) Adresses Siège social : Tsévié, Préfecture de Zio, Région maritime, TOGO B.P. 149 Tsévié – TOGO Cel. :(00228) 909 05 84 E-mail : [email protected] Antennes : Kpalimé, Préfecture de Kloto, Région des plateaux E-mail : [email protected] Titre du projet : Inventory of Butterflies in the Missahoe Classified Forest in Togo, Upper Guinea Forest II. REMARQUES PRÉALABLES 1 – Présentation sommaire du Togo Situé dans la sous région Ouest africaine, le Togo est un petit pays effilé coincé entre le Bénin à l’Est et le Ghana à l’Ouest. Il est limité au Nord par le Burkina Faso et au Sud par le Golfe de Guinée. Sa superficie est de 56 600 km2. La population est de 4 500 000 habitants avec une densité moyenne de 25 habitants / Km2. La proportion de la femme est de 62%. La zone guinéenne du Togo qui comprend les régions Maritimes et des Plateaux compte 76,6% de pauvre dont 65,5% extrêmement pauvre1. Sur le plan économique, l’évolution du PIB par habitant du Togo en général a progressivement baissé depuis les années 1997 à la suite de la situation socio politique du pays, jointe aux problèmes climatiques qui ont eu des impacts négatifs sur la flore, la faune et la production agricole2. En vue de freiner la pression anthropique sur les ressources naturelles et réduire la pauvreté des populations tributaires des ressources animales et végétales, les divers programme de développement3 proposent dans leur plan d’action, le développement des activités génératrices de revenus afin d’orienter les activités de ces exploitants. -
Pesticidal Plants
Pesticidal Plants • Philip C. • Philip Stevenson, R. Steven Belmain and Murray B. Isman Pesticidal Plants From Smallholder Use to Commercialisation Edited by Philip C. Stevenson, Steven R. Belmain and Murray B. Isman Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Plants www.mdpi.com/journal/plants Pesticidal Plants Pesticidal Plants From Smallholder Use to Commercialisation Special Issue Editors Philip C. Stevenson Steven R. Belmain Murray B. Isman MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editors Philip C. Stevenson Steven R. Belmain Murray B. Isman University of Greenwich University of Greenwich University of British Columbia UK UK Canada Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Plants (ISSN 2223-7747) from 2019 to 2020 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special issues/Pesticidal). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03928-788-8 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03928-789-5 (PDF) Cover image courtesy of Philip C. Stevenson. c 2020 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. -
The Volta Region
WILDLIFE DIVISION (FORESTRY COMMISSION) REPUBLIC OF GHANA Wildlife Division Support Project (WDSP) The Butterflies of Kyabobo National Park, Ghana, and those of the Volta Region by Torben B Larsen (WDSP Report No. 64) March 2006 In collaboration with: Butterflies of Kyabobo and Volta Region. WDSP Report no 64 March 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY …………………………………… 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ………………………………….. 7 1. INTRODUCTION ………………………………………… 8 2. KYABOBO NATIONAL PARK …………………………. 9 2.1 Location and characteristics of Kyabobo National Park …… 9 2.1.1 Habitat types ………………………………………………… 9 2.2 The butterflies of Kyabobo National Park …………………. 10 2.2.1 Material and methods ……………………………………….. 10 2.2.2 Analysis of the Kyabobo butterflies ……………………….... 11 2.2.3 Conservation value of Kyabobo National Park ……..………. 14 2.3 Ecotourism potential ..……………………………………... 14 3. VOLTA REGION – ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 17 3.1 The Volta Region setting …………………………………… 17 3.2 History of butterfly collecting in the Volta Region ………… 18 3.3 Review of the Volta Region butterfly fauna ………………… 19 3.3.1 Total butterfly fauna …………………………………………… 19 3.3.2 Endemics of Africa west of the Dahomey Gap ……………….. 21 3.3.3 Eastern species not found west of the Volta River ……………. 23 3.4 Biogeographical summary …………………………………… 25 3.5 Conservation priorities in the Volta Region ………...………. 25 3.6 Ecotourism …………………………………………………... 27 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS ……………………………… 29 REFERENCES ……………………………………………. 30 APPENDICES: Appendix 1 The butterflies of the Volta Region, Kyabobo, Wli Falls, and Kalakpa…………….….…………….. 33 Appendix 2 Butterflies recorded by Karsch (1893) from Adeli Mountains, German Togoland …………… 55 2 Butterflies of Kyabobo and Volta Region. WDSP Report no 64 March 2006 LIST OF TABLES: Table 2.2.2.