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Lepidoptera
fauna in Bartin province, in western black sea region of
Turkey
Azize Toper
Kaygin1*, Yafes Yildiz1 and Mustafa
Avci2
1Department
of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry,
Bartın University, 74100 Bartın, Turkey.
2Department
of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, University of
Suleyman Demirel, Isparta, Turkey
Corresponding
author. E-mail: azize_toper@yahoo.com. Tel: +90378 2235177.
Fax: +903782235066.
Accepted 10 August, 2009 |
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This research was performed in the field and laboratory
between the years 2007 and 2008 with the aim of identifying
species of the order Lepidoptera in Bartin region. The
butterfly species that were existing in Bartin centrum,
Amasra, Ulus, Kurucasile and in nearby regions like Inkum,
Mugada, Kumluca, Kozcagiz, Cakraz etc and plus in the campus
of Bartin Faculty of Forestry were brought to the laboratory
after having been obtained by various methods such as
butterfly net, light traps and pheromones traps. Those
species having been examined under a lup and microscope were
identified and protected in the laboratory. In the end of
the study, the data obtained were 90 species from 21
families of Lepidoptera class. Among these species 15 have
been mostly observed in agricultural areas. The samples
mostly identified were
Lycaenidae, Noctuidae,
Nymphalidae and Satyridae.
Key words:
Bartin, identification, Lepidoptera, species. |
