Lepidoptera, Linnaeus, 1758

Lepidoptera View in CoL

Literature sources. BUTLER (1881, 1897), TASCHENBERG (1883), DIXEY (1898), HAMPSON (1899, 1900, 1901a,b, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913a,b, 1926, 1930), OGILVIE- GRANT (1899, 1903), REBEL (1899, 1907), WALSINGHAM (1900, 1903), ROTHSCHILD & JORDAN (1903), FLETCHER (1910), STRAND (1916), TAMS (1924), MEYRICK (1933), JORDAN (1939), GHESQUIÈRE (1942), BERIO (1950), STORACE (1955), FLETCHER (1961, 1967), WHALLEY (1963), SATTLER (1967, 1976), CARCASSON (1968), ROESLER (1973), ARENBERGER (1977, 2009), POPESCU- GORJ & CONSTAN- TINESCU (1977), SPEIDEL (1984), WILTSHIRE (1988), GUICHARD (1992), HERBULOT (1993, 1994, 1999), LÖDL (1994, 1995), HREBLAY (1996), WRANIK (1998, 1999, 2000, 2003), HACKER (1999, 2011, 2016), HEYNDERICX (2004), CHEUNG & DEVANTIER (2006), HACKER & FIBIGER (2006), HAUSMANN (2006, 2009), IVINSKIS & SALDAITIS (2008), BEHOUNEK et al. (2010), HACKER & SALDAITIS (2010, 2011), SALDAITIS & IVINSKIS (2010), YAKOVLEV & SALDAITIS (2010), BORTH et al. (2011), HAXAIRE & MELICHAR (2011), YAKOVLEV (2011), BATELKA (2012a), HACKER et al. (2012), FRIC & HULA (2013), NUPPONEN & SALDAITIS (2013), BENGTSSON (2014), FRIC et al. (2017).

Comments. With 286 species, Lepidoptera is the second most species-rich order of insects in the Socotra Archipelago. 105 species (36%) are endemic to the archipelago. Some groups were recently revised in detail, for example: Cossidae ( BORTH et al. 2011) , Geometridae ( HAUSMANN 2006, 2009), Pterophoridae ( ARENBERGER 2009) , or Noctuoidea ( HACKER 2016; HACKER & SALDAITIS 2010, 2011). An actual list of 27 Socotran butterflies was published by FRIC & HULA (2013) and FRIC et al. (2017). However, other families like Pyralidae or Tortricidae are awaiting a comprehensive revision.