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- Title
NEW RECORDS OF MOTHS ELUCIDATE THE IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS AS BIODIVERSITY HOT-SPOTS IN CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES (LEPIDOPTERA).
- Authors
GRECO, SILVIA; IENCO, ANNAMARIA; INFUSINO, MARCO; LEONETTI, FRANCESCO LUIGI; SCALERCIO, STEFANO
- Abstract
In this paper we report new faunistic findings concerning 15 moth species collected in forested habitats of Calabria and Sicily regions, South Italy. Most interesting records concerned Eupithecia trisignaria and Orectis proboscidata, both recorded for the first time in southern Italy. Species with larval biology linked to the forest cover were locally common, whilst species linked to herbaceous plants and shrubs were often collected as singletons or in one locality, showing smaller populations. A study of a 658bp long sequence of the mitochondrial 5' cytochrome oxidase gene, subunit 1 (COI) (barcoding analysis) was performed for five species, two of them showing a divergence from closest populations near to 1%, one a 2% divergence from northern populations, and two other species a perfect identity with European populations. This study reinforced the role of forest habitats as biodiversity hot-spots in the Mediterranean Basin and the importance of the Italian peninsula for biodiversity conservation at European scale as an increased number of endemic or sub-endemic taxa and populations with endemic genetic lineages are recognized, underlining the existence of ongoing evolutionary processes. In the light of these results, faunistic surveys in forest ecosystems are strongly needed to define sustainable management strategies.
- Subjects
BIODIVERSITY; MOTHS; LEPIDOPTERA; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC barcoding
- Publication
Redia: Journal of Zoology / Giornale di Zoologia, 2018, Vol 101, p147
- ISSN
0370-4327
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19263/REDIA-101.18.20