Invertebrate Ireland

CITATION

Bond, K.G.M., Nash, R. & O’Connor, J.P. 2006. An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) , The Irish Biogeograghical Society and the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
http://www.habitas.org.uk/InvertebrateIreland/species.asp?item=9059

IRISH STATUS	See Explanatory Text
Accepted

NORTHERN IRELAND	REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Recorded	Recorded

STATUS OF NAME

Current name

VALIDATING LITERATURE

Bond, K.G.M., Nash, R., O'Connor, J.P. 2006, An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) , The Irish Biogeographical Society,

LITERATURE FOR IDENTIFICATION

Tolman, T, 1997, Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe, , Harper Collins,

Thomas, J. & Lewington, R, 1991, The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, , Dorling Kindersley,

LITERATURE FOR TAXONOMIC CHANGE

LITERATURE FOR ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION

Asher, J., Warren, M., Fox, R., Harding, P., Jeffcoate, G. & Jeffcoate, S., 2001, The millennium atlas of butterflies in Britain and Ireland, , Oxford University Press,

Fox, R., Asher, J., Brereton, T., Roy, D & Warren, M, 2006, The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, , Pisces Publications,

Thomas, J. & Lewington, R, 1991, The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, , Dorling Kindersley,

LOCATION OF VOUCHER

EXPLANATORY TEXT

Higgins (1975) recognizes only two western European sub-species of megera-paramegera Hübner from Sardinia and Corsica and the nominate, megera L, from the remainder of the region.


Classification: Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order LEPIDOPTERA Suborder Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA Family NYMPHALIDAE Subfamily SATYRINAE Genus Lasiommata
	Lasiommata megera
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