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New publication on Afrotropical butterflies

Robert TropekWednesday January 15th, 2020Thursday January 16th, 2020 Uncategorized

In the last days of 2019, our new publication on understudied Afrotropical butterflies has been published in SHILAP Revista de lepidopterológia, the pdf can be downloaded here. In this study, Rob has participated on the description of unknown females of Euriphene lomaensis, E. taigola and E. bernaudi, and an unknown male of Bebearia inepta. All these species occur in forests of Africa, Rob was involved in the collection (and discovering) of part of the unknown sexes in Liberia and Cameroon. Such smaller studies are surely important for better knowledge on biodiversity of still largely understudied tropical Africa.

Female of Euriphene bernaudi from Mount Kupe, Cameroon. © SHILAP/Sz. Sáfián

Čuda J., Pyšková K., Hejda M., Foxcroft L.C., MacFadyen S., Storch D., Tropek R., Zambatis G., Pyšek P. (in press) Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna. Ecology and Evolution.

Ustjuzhanin P., Kovtunovich V., Delabye S., Maicher V., Sáfián Sz., Streltzov A., Tropek R. (2024) Magnifying the hotspot: Description of nine new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with an identification key to all species known from Cameroon. Zookeys 1193: 25-48.

Uceda-Gómez G., Chmel K., Janečková P., Mlíkovský J., Klomberg Y., Ewome F.L., Molua L.L., Njie M.M., Tropek R., Janeček Š. (2024) Drivers of sunbird-plant interactions on Mount Cameroon: between neutrality and niche-based processes. Biotropica 56: 138-146.

Sakhalkar S.P., Janeček Š., Klomberg Y., Mertens J.E.J., Hodeček J., Tropek R. (2023) Cheaters among pollinators: Nectar robbing and thieving vary spatiotemporally with floral traits in Afrotropical forests. Ecosphere 14: e4696.

Kolar V., Chmelová E., Bílková M., Borovec J., Carreira B.M., Černý M., Ditrich T., Horká P., Hrivniak L., Hrubý F., Jan J., Landeira-Dabarca A., Lepšová-Skácelová O., Musilová Z., Otáhalová Š., Poláková M., Polášková V., Sacherová V., Špaček J., Sroka P., Vebrová L., Boukal D.S., Tropek R. (2023) Muddying the unexplored post-industrial waters: Biodiversity and conservation potential of freshwater habitats in fly ash sedimentation lagoons. Science of the Total Environment 900: 165803.

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