New data on the butterflies fauna (Insecta: Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea) of Iraqi Kurdistan
Abstract
R.V. Yakovlev
The article gives a list of Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea), including 8 species of 5 families, collected in April 2017 in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan. Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) is for the first time reliably given for the fauna of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Keywords: Entomology; Iraqi Kurdistan; new records; fauna; Papilionoidea; Hesperioidea
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