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Boletín Científico. Centro de Museos. Museo de Historia Natural
Print version ISSN 0123-3068
Abstract
SALAZAR-E., César Augusto. THE AGAPE NATURAL RESERVE: DIURNAL BUTTERFLIES (LEPIDOPTERA: RHOPALOCERA) OF LA ARENOSA AND CAÑO YAHUARCACA, LETICIA, AMAZONAS. Bol. Cient. Mus. Hist. Nat. Univ. Caldas [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp.208-228. ISSN 0123-3068. https://doi.org/10.17151/bccm.2019.23.2.11.
Objective:
This work aims to inform the conservation activities that occur in the Agape Natural Reserve, located in the Colombian Amazon and offer a list of the species of butterflies collected in the region.
Scope:
We search to know better the lepidopterofauna of this area of the Amazon until now little studied.
Methodology:
For the collected material of diurnal butterflies, aerial entomological networks and Van Someren-Rydon attraction traps and visual observations of other species were used.
Main results:
An updated list of 301species included in 159 genera is presented, biogeographical comments are made based on the composition of this list.
Conclusions:
This work contributes to the knowledge of the species of Lepidoptera of Colombia and its distribution circumscribed to the Amazon of the country.
Keywords : Amazon; conservation; Ephemeroptera; biodiversity; Lepidoptera; Brazil; Peru.