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Assessing year-round phenology and reproduction of the migratory painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in a Mediterranean area in southern Spain

2021; Institute of Entomology; Volume: 118; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14411/eje.2021.029

1802-8829

Mariano Cuadrado,

Plant and animal studies

Recently, a number of studies have reported some important cues for the migratory habits of this species in the Palearctic.First, Stefanescu et al. (2017) report the complete absence of this species in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria) at the end of summer (mid-to-late September) followed by the arrival of huge numbers of migrants in October and early November.Isotopic analyses of butterfl y wings confi rm that most of these migrants come from Europe although there is also a signifi cant immigration from the Sahel region (Stefanescu et al., 2016).Secondly, some fi eld studies report both the presence of painted ladies in the Maghreb region in winter (Stefanescu Assessing year-round phenology and reproduction of the migratory painted lady butterfl y, Vanessa cardui (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in a Mediterranean area in southern Spain