Butterflies in North-East Greece (28th July - 4th August 1994).

Abstract

Greece has an interesting butterfly fauna which includes (I) representatives of the European sub-continent's fauna, (2) representatives of Asia-Minor's fauna and (3) endemic mountain species (Brown & Coutsis, 1978). The present paper lists the 84 species of butterfly found on three mountains in north-east Greece between 28th July and 4th August 1994. Of these, two species are not recorded on the lists of Bretherton (1967, 1968, 1970), Coutsis (1969, 1972, 1973), Dacie et al. (1970, 1972, 1979, 1982), Koutsaftikis (1974) and de Worms & Bretherton (1975). These are Lycaena dispar rutila Werneberg and the more recently described Pseudochazara orestes de Prins & van der Poorten.