{"id":2818,"date":"2021-09-22T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifethinkhotels.com\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/fysiko-perivallon\/petaloudes\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:34:00","slug":"petaloudes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/fysiko-perivallon\/petaloudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butterfly fauna of Kefalonia has been studied quite satisfactorily. First, in 1986, Gaskin & Littler studied kefalonian Lepidoptera and recorded 28 species. A decade later, in 1996, Gaskin recorded 40 species from all around the island. So far, the most comprehensive study about insect fauna of Kefalonia has been carried out by researcher Efthimiatou-Katsouni in 2006, who confirmed the presence of 35 Lepidoptera species already-mentioned in previous studies; she also recorded 14 new taxa and a rare variety of a female individual\u00a0Colias croceus<\/em>\u00a0Fourcroy, 1785 f.\u00a0belice<\/em>\u00a0Hubner. Moreover, in 2015, Maroulis & Xanthakis have confirmed the presence of 31 butterfly species in Kefalonia, at the Paliki peninsula and Aenos National Park. During the summertime in mount Aenos occurs the gathering of different butterfly<\/span>\u00a0species, endemic to diverse flora species. For example, the flowers of thyme (Thymus holosericeus<\/em>) attract the colorful impressive butterfly species\u00a0Argynnis paphia<\/em>,\u00a0Gonepteryx cleopatra (Fig. 2)<\/em>\u00a0Iphiclides podalirius (Fig. 3) and Aricia argestis\u00a0<\/em>(Fig. 1). Butterfly species\u00a0Neozephyrus quercus<\/em>\u00a0swarm into the foliage of\u00a0Quercus coccifera\u00a0<\/em>shrubs. In the forest meadows of Aenos National Park the following species have been recorded:\u00a0Polyommatus Icarus<\/em>,\u00a0Lasiommata megera, Lasiommata maera, Colias croceus, Spialia orbifer, Satyrium ilicis, Papilio machaon<\/em>\u00a0(Fig. 4) ecc. Due to color imitation, butterflies of Genus\u00a0Hipparchia syriaca<\/em>,\u00a0Hipparchia fatua<\/em>\u00a0(Fig. 5) and\u00a0Hipparchia statilinus<\/em>\u00a0cannot easily be distinguished from tree trunks. It is worth mentioned that butterflies of\u00a0Vanessa cardui<\/em>\u00a0were recorded for the first time to thrive and reproduce in the island of Kefalonia during the summer months. This fact may shed light to the appearance of\u00a0Vanessa cardui\u00a0<\/em>subadult population early next year (January). Most probably population origin derives from eggs deposited in Greece and then turned into caterpillars and pupae, instead of flying back\u00a0 from Africa, where the species annually migrates (Maroulis & Xanthakis, 2015).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig 1. Aricia argestis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Aenos National Park 63 butterfly species have been recorded, out of the 235 species recorded in Greece. These 63 species divided into five families: Papilionidae (4 representative species), Hesperiidae (7 representative species), Pieridae (13 representative species), Lycaenidae (15 representative species), and Nymphalidae (24 representative species) (Pamperis, 2009). Butterfly species\u00a0Hipparchia fagi<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hipparchia volgensis<\/em>\u00a0(Fig. 6) are native to Europe. Besides, four butterfly species,\u00a0Pseudophilotes vicrama, Hipparchia fagi<\/em>,\u00a0Hipparchia statilinus\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Thymelicus acteon<\/em>\u00a0are under threat to extinction according to the World Union for Nature Protection (IUCN – status NT: NearThreatened).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig 2. Gonepteryx cleopatra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The recording of Lepidoptera of Aenos National Park was performed by the scientific personnel of the Management Body of Aenos National Park and the kind collaboration of Christos Maroulis, a photographer of wild nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig 3. Iphiclides podalirius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Butterfly fauna of Kefalonia has been studied quite satisfactorily. First, in 1986, Gaskin & Littler studied kefalonian Lepidoptera and recorded 28 species. A decade later, in 1996, Gaskin recorded 40 species from all around the island. So far, the most…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2809,"menu_order":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2818\/revisions\/3133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aenosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}