List of butterflies of China

Plate from Edward Donovan An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China, 1838
Provinces of China

The following is a list of all butterflies found in China.Temperate North China is in Central Asia and the Palearctic ecozone. The rest of China including the tropical South (Hainan, Hong Kong and Taiwan) is in the Indomalaya ecozone.In many parts of China the Palearctic and Oriental faunas intergrade.The list includes species recorded from Tian Shan, Amur and Ussuri.1,317 species are recorded from China.

History of study

Early work on the butterfly fauna of China was undertaken by European entomologists:Edward Donovan, John Henry Leech, Henry John Elwes, Charles Oberthür, Ernest Grandidier, Otto Staudinger, Hans Fruhstorfer, Alfred Otto Herz, Arthur Poujade, Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin, Jules Paul Mabille, Sergei Alphéraky and Rudolf Püngeler furnish examples.In the early twentieth century the results were summarised in Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde edited by Adalbert Seitz.In the 1930s, Wong Chi-yu, Chou Io and Miss NgYukchau published reports on butterfly species of Zhejiang, Guang-dong Provinces and Chuankang Area and Ningbo(Zhejiang Prov.) respectively. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Lee Chuan-lung published revisionary works and descriptions of a number of new species of butterflies from China.Some of these were collected during Sino-Soviet expeditions to Chinese Central Asia when Chinese entomologists worked with their Russian counterparts. Iconographia Insectorum Shensi-corum: Rhopalocera was published in 1978 by the then Northwestern College of Agriculture.Following that books on the butterfly fauna of Gansu, Hunan (Chenzhou),Guangxi, Guangdong(Lingnan), Henan, Zhejiang were published and also checklists of the butterflies of Jiangxi, Shandong, Ningxia and Xinjiang . In 1992, The Atlas of Chinese Butterflies was published by Lee Chuan-lung.In 1994, Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium edited by Chou Io was published, summarising studies by fortynine lepidopterists from all over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.In 1996 the Butterfly Association of the Entomological Society of China was founded.It is based in the Northwestern Agricultural University. Chou Io revised Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium in 1998 in Classification and Identification of Chinese Butterflies Field Identification Guide. Other and more recent work appears in Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica

Superfamily Papilionoidea

Superfamily Hesperioidea

See also

References

    Key Works Walter Forster

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