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Lepidoptera of Kakamega Forest, Kenya, East Africa
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Last update: 2009-11-12 Done by: Andre Koch
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| Description | 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 occuring in Kenya), although there is a lack of biological information for many species.
In the last decades investigations on moth fauna of Kakamega Forest increased not least because of the BIOTA research programme. Currently there are approximately 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 not represented in this list yet. |
| Purpose |
Summary of butterfly and moth diversity of Kakamega Forest |
| Main theme(s) |
Lepidoptera, butterflies, moths, biodiversity, Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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| Biome(s) |
tropical rainforest |
| Country(ies) |
Kenya |
| Administration unit(s) |
Kakamega Forest |
| Locality(ies) |
Kakamega Forest |
| BIOTA Observatory(ies) |
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| Period(s) |
2001-2008 |
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| Responsible person(s) |
Joachim Holstein, Christoph Häuser, Lars Kühne, André Koch |
| Regional networks(s) |
BIOTA East Africa |
| Related subprojects / workpackages / topics |
BIOTA Africa E01, E06 |
| Copyright holder |
Joachim Holstein, Christoph Häuser, Lars Kühne, André Koch |
| Restrictions of dissemination |
none |
| Start time of protection |
none |
| Duration of protection |
none |
| Rationale / notes |
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| Data |
| Format |
MS-Excel |
| File name(s) / size(s) |
Kakamega-butterflies.xls / 133 KB |
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| Status |
need to be updated |
| Notes |
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| Related publications |
- Kühne, L. (ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega Forest (Kenya). Brandenburgische Universitätsdruckerei und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2008.
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Kühne, L., S. C. Collins, W. Kinuthia (2004). Checklist of the butterflies of the Kakamega Forest Nature Reserve in western Kenya (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Nachr. Entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F., 25(4): 161-174.
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LARSEN, T. B. 1991. The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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