Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Satu Mare. Studii şi comunicări 15-16. (1998-1999)

Stiinţele naturii

Species of Zoogeographical significance in butterflies of the Eastern and

Southern Carpathians

Szabó Andrei

The Eastern and Southern Carpathians with their 152 respectively 149 number of species may be considered to be rich as compared to their territorial ranges and height above sea level considering that the highest altitude areas with their characteristic subnival species are not to be found in the Carpathians.

The eastern Carpathians are in some way richer in species, because they have a greater extension and are more varied geologically, as well.

Though The Southern Carpathians are less varied geologically than The Eastern ones owing to their connection with the eastern parts of The Balkan Mountains and to their higher level above the sea the number of species is almost the same as in The astern Carpathians.

Faunal types Number of species

Total

E.Carp.S.Carp.

1 .Palearctic-Holarctic policentric spp.

44

44

42

2.Holomediterranean-N-Mediterranean spp.

36

30

32

3.Pontomediterranean spp.

22

14

22

4.Ponto-Caspic, Ponto-Caspic-Turkestanic spp.9

9

8

5.Bicentric Mediterranean-Mandzhurian spp.

6

6

6

6.Southern Siberian and Mandzhurian spp.

11

10

9

7.Siberian and Siberian -Boreo-montane spp.26

26

17

8.European-Alpine and Euroasiatic-Alpine spp.9

8

8

9.Xeromontane spp.

1

1-lO.Balcanic-oreal spp.

2

1

2

11 .Arctic-Alpine spp.

1

1

1

12.Extrapalearctic spp.

2

2

2

Total number of species

169

152

149

Taking into consideration that the number of butterfly species show a little difference from both, Eastern and Southern Carpathians (152-149) the number of

differential species is very significant.

Differential species of butterflies

Eastern carpathians:20 spp.

Pamassius apollo (Linnaeus, 1758) Colias chrysotheme (Esper, 1781) Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779)

Satryrium acaciae (Fabricius 1787) Lycaena helle (D.& Sch. 1775) Lycaena hippothoe (Linnaeus 1761) Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829) Maculinea teleius (Bergsträsser, 1779) Plebeius idas (Linnaeus, 1761)

Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780)

Southern Carpathians: 17 spp.

Spialia orbifer(Hübner, 1823)

Pyrgus sidae(Esper, 1782)

Pieris mannii(Mayer, 1851)

Pieris ergane(Geyer, 1828)

Pieris balcana(Lorkovic 1968) Scolitantides orion(Palla 1771) Libythea celtis(Laicharting, 1782) Limenitis reducta(Staudinger, 1901) Hipparchia syriaca(Staudinger, 1871) Hipparchiastatilinus(Hufnagel, 1766)

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