Butterflies are to understand Western culture, a symbol of innocence, beauty and fragility. Their colors fascinate children, accounting one of the main elements of the iconography child, their habits and morphology have always attracted the attention of anyone who contemplates the wonders of the animal kingdom and its preservation is a topic of debate among scientists and environmentalists. Butterflies are known popularly
the insect order Lepidoptera, which are included as members of the Superorder Endopterygota within Infraclass Neoptera. This is a large group, consisting of about one hundred twenty-seven Families and more hundred and sixty-five thousand species, grouped in Aglossata, Glossata. Zeugloptera Heterobathmiina and the four suborders are the clade. Most species of butterflies are actually habits Insects night, looking slightly fuzzy and colorful, but diurnal species are the most popular and famous, and others experience a complete metamorphosis, giving birth by laying eggs which fry emerge in the form of worms or larvae, called caterpillars, after which feed on leaves and stems will create a cocoon or chrysalis casing body to start its reorganization which will result in the winged adult look so familiar to everyone.
In Spain more than two hundred known diurnal species of these insects, entomologists and international studies have provided this beautiful biological group in the Iberian Peninsula, but unfortunately are very few studies have focused on the eastern side of the country, although this is where the greatest concentration of national Lepidoptera.
I remember the first serious and systematic study undertaken of the Butterflies Valencia was entitled "The Lepidoptera of Castellón de la Plana" despite my young age at the time of publication, this incontestable work was very early in my home library, which I soon get familiar with it. The volume was based with the research of Dr. Jose Amador De la Calle Pascual, who with the support provided by the Economic Research Seminar, ecological and social currently merged with Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Castellón, published the most complete catalog of butterflies and moths of that English province in 1983, after a work of capture, recognition and identification of thousands of copies through traps specially designed for this, located in different ecosystems of the region, for which he devoted several years of effort. The result was none other than the most complete publication about these insects, with specific references to individual photographs, diagrams, tables and other graphics. Notably, the work of Dr. De la Calle involved the description of numerous taxa hitherto unknown territory Castellon.
Since then, little else has been collector of interest, although prospective studies, especially by the respective faculties of the Universities of Valencia, have generated considerable academic knowledge about the species inhabiting the autonomous territory. However, this trend has just incomprehensible remedied, thanks to a new scientific project aimed to formally present informative, once and for all, diversity of species that find their habitat in Valencia with a vocabulary and a graphic that can be known and understood by all.
This new work receives the title "Butterflies of Valencia, and it renews and refreshes the content informative so far contained domestic works on the subject and provides a more regional and specific. Its publication was made possible thanks to the work of its authors, Sergio and José Antonio García Montagud, both active Torres Entomological Foundation Board and the Generalitat Valenciana (Generalitat Valenciana) through its Ministry of Environment (Ministry of Environment environment). In contemplating the new book, we find that is divided into specific files that describe individually the 159 taxa recorded in this area, reference to morphology, habitat, nutritional resources, symbiosis and other concepts of a biological nature. The book also reveals that 70% of the Iberian species of Lepidoptera are present in the community, probably due to its status as the coastal territory and its diversity of habitats.
With the contribution made by the new work, Valencia has swelled its regional database, which counts today more than half a million records, provided a reference for biologists and students from around the globe. In short, a new volume worthy of adding to the library.
the insect order Lepidoptera, which are included as members of the Superorder Endopterygota within Infraclass Neoptera. This is a large group, consisting of about one hundred twenty-seven Families and more hundred and sixty-five thousand species, grouped in Aglossata, Glossata. Zeugloptera Heterobathmiina and the four suborders are the clade. Most species of butterflies are actually habits Insects night, looking slightly fuzzy and colorful, but diurnal species are the most popular and famous, and others experience a complete metamorphosis, giving birth by laying eggs which fry emerge in the form of worms or larvae, called caterpillars, after which feed on leaves and stems will create a cocoon or chrysalis casing body to start its reorganization which will result in the winged adult look so familiar to everyone.
In Spain more than two hundred known diurnal species of these insects, entomologists and international studies have provided this beautiful biological group in the Iberian Peninsula, but unfortunately are very few studies have focused on the eastern side of the country, although this is where the greatest concentration of national Lepidoptera.
I remember the first serious and systematic study undertaken of the Butterflies Valencia was entitled "The Lepidoptera of Castellón de la Plana" despite my young age at the time of publication, this incontestable work was very early in my home library, which I soon get familiar with it. The volume was based with the research of Dr. Jose Amador De la Calle Pascual, who with the support provided by the Economic Research Seminar, ecological and social currently merged with Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Castellón, published the most complete catalog of butterflies and moths of that English province in 1983, after a work of capture, recognition and identification of thousands of copies through traps specially designed for this, located in different ecosystems of the region, for which he devoted several years of effort. The result was none other than the most complete publication about these insects, with specific references to individual photographs, diagrams, tables and other graphics. Notably, the work of Dr. De la Calle involved the description of numerous taxa hitherto unknown territory Castellon.
Since then, little else has been collector of interest, although prospective studies, especially by the respective faculties of the Universities of Valencia, have generated considerable academic knowledge about the species inhabiting the autonomous territory. However, this trend has just incomprehensible remedied, thanks to a new scientific project aimed to formally present informative, once and for all, diversity of species that find their habitat in Valencia with a vocabulary and a graphic that can be known and understood by all.
This new work receives the title "Butterflies of Valencia, and it renews and refreshes the content informative so far contained domestic works on the subject and provides a more regional and specific. Its publication was made possible thanks to the work of its authors, Sergio and José Antonio García Montagud, both active Torres Entomological Foundation Board and the Generalitat Valenciana (Generalitat Valenciana) through its Ministry of Environment (Ministry of Environment environment). In contemplating the new book, we find that is divided into specific files that describe individually the 159 taxa recorded in this area, reference to morphology, habitat, nutritional resources, symbiosis and other concepts of a biological nature. The book also reveals that 70% of the Iberian species of Lepidoptera are present in the community, probably due to its status as the coastal territory and its diversity of habitats.
With the contribution made by the new work, Valencia has swelled its regional database, which counts today more than half a million records, provided a reference for biologists and students from around the globe. In short, a new volume worthy of adding to the library.
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