CLIMIT Publications, (as of August 2011) A total of 19 papers have been published in (or accepted by) international peer-reviewed journals since the beginning of the project. F. Barbero, S. Bonelli, J. A. Thomas, E. Balletto and K. Schönrogge (2009): Acoustical mimicry in a predatory social parasite of ants. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, pp 4084- 4090 S. Bonelli, M. Witek, S. Canterino, M. Sielezniew, A. Stankiewicz-Fiedurek, A. Tartally, E. Balletto and K. Schönrogge (2011): Distribution, host specificity, and the potential for cryptic speciation in hoverfly Microdon myrmicae (Diptera: Syrphidae), a social parasite of Myrmica ants. Ecological Entomology, in press L. P. Casacci, M. Witek, F. Barbero, D. Patricelli, G. Solazzo, E. Balletto and S. Bonelli (2011): Habitat preferences of Maculinea arion and its Myrmica host ants: implications for habitat management in Italian Alps. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15, pp 103-110 T. Hovestadt, B. Binzenhöfer, P. Nowicki and J. Settele (2011): Do all inter-patch movements represent dispersal? A mixed kernel study of butterfly mobility in fragmented landscapes. Journal of Animal Ecology, published online March 2011, in press N. J. B. Isaac, M. Girardello, T. M. Brereton and D. B. Roy (2011): Butterfly abundance in a warming climate: patterns in space and time are not congruent. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15, pp 233-240 A. Kubisch, T. Hovestadt and H.-J. Poethke (2010): On the elasticity of range limits during phases of expansion. Ecology, 91 (10), pp 3094-3099 X.-s. Li, Y.-l. Zhang, J.-h. Fang, O. Schweiger and J. Settele (2010): A butterfly hotspot in western China, its environmental threats and conservation. Journal of Insect Conservation, published online Nov 2010, in press M. Musche, J. Settele and W. Durka (2010): Performance and response to defoliation of Sanguisorba officinalis (Rosaceae) seedlings from mown and successional habitats. Botany, 88, pp 691-697 P. Nowicki, S. Bonelli, F. Barbero and E. Balletto (2009): Relative importance of density- dependent regulation and environmental stochasticity for butterfly population dynamics. Oecologia, 161, pp 227-239 D. Patricelli, M. Witek, F. Barbero, L. P. Casacci, S. Bonelli and E. Balletto (2010): Evidence of High Larval Host Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Specificity in the First Post-Adoption Phase for the Myrmecophilous Butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) nausithous (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Sociobiology, 55 (3), pp 861-869 J. Settele, F. Barbero, M. Musche, J. A. Thomas and K. Schönrogge (2011): Singing the blues: from experimental biology to conservation application. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, pp 1407-1410 J. Settele and E. Kühn (2009): Insect Conservation. Science, 325, pp 41-42 M. Sielezniew, D. Patricelli, I. Dziekanska, F. Barbero, S. Bonelli, L. P. Casacci, M. Witek and E. Balletto (2010): The First Record of Myrmica lonae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a Host of the Socially Parasitic Large Blue Butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) arion (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Sociobiology, 56 (2), pp 465-475 J. A. Thomas, D. J. Simcox and R. T. Clarke (2009): Successful Conservation of a Threatened Maculinea Butterfly. Science, 325, pp 80-83 J. A. Thomas, D. J. Simcox and T. Hovestadt (2011): Evidence based conservation of butterflies. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15, pp 241-258 J. A. Thomas, K. Schönrogge, S. Bonelli, F. Barbero and E. Balletto (2010): Corruption of ant acoustical signals by mimetic social parasites: Maculinea butterflies achieve elevated status in host societies by mimicking the acoustics of queen ants. Communivative and Integrative Biology, 3 (2), pp 1-4 M. Wang and J. Settele (2010): Notes on and key to the genus Phengaris (s. str.) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from mainland China with description of a new species. ZooKeys, 48, pp 21-28 M. Witek, P. Nowicki, E. B. Sliwinska, P. Skarka, J. Settele, K. Schönrogge and M. Woyciechowski (2010): Local host ant specificity of Phengaris (Maculinea) teleius butterfly, an obligatory social parasite of Myrmica ants. Ecological Entomology, 35, pp 557-564 M. Witek, E. B. Sliwinska, P. Nowicki, D. Moron, J. Settele and M. Woyciechowski (2011): Development of parasitic Maculinea teleius (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) larvae in laboratory nests of four Myrmica ant host species. Insectes Sociaux, 58, pp 403-411 .