PANGAEA_821975 Butterflies in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya Kühne, Lars; Holstein, Joachim; Häuser, Christoph Butterflies in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya 2013-11-11 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.821975 Investigator Lars Kühne kuehne_lars@web.de Earth Science Order Family Subfamily Scientific name Biotop Larval hostplants Distribution Reference/source geoscientificInformation Kakamega_Forest Complete 0.291 0.291 34.856 34.856 BIOTA BIOdiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa unrestricted CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.821975"! ** The following list reflects the current state of research into Kakamega's Lepidoptera. Well known are butterflies with 487 species (this is more than a half of all butterfly species occurring in Kenya), although there is a lack of biological information for many species. In the last decades investigations on the moth fauna of Kakamega Forest increased not least because of the BIOTA AFRICA research programme. Currently there are more than 600 species of moths known from the forest area plus an unknown number of "Microlepidoptera" species, many of them new to science. Against this background the following list has to be treated as preliminary. Future research efforts will add further species. Some Lepidoptera taxon groups as most Noctuidae and Geometridae as well as "Microlepidoptera" are underrepresented in this list.

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