Faunistic notes on the noctuoid moths (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) in the Lucchese Apennines of Tuscany, Italy

By

Cicero, Maila
Ghesini, Silvia
Marini, Mario
Bonfitto, Antonio.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-10-24

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

20

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1192--1215

Subjects

Checklist , climate change , indicator species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/20.5.1192

 

Abstract

Insects have been used as indicators of the state of environmental quality due to their ecological characteristics and role at many different trophic levels. In parcticular, moths are used as indicators to monitor the recovery of vegetation following environmental stress or as early warnings to measure the effects of environmental change at a local scale. For this type of evaluation, timed series of catch data from the same areas are of fundamental importance as reference data. Here we report the results of a year of sampling in areas of the Lucchese Apennines in Tuscany, Italy. These sites were previously sampled in the late 1970s. The results of this annotated list of species show a decrease in the number of species present in the study area that is not compensated by new records not sampled in the past.