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The butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Kungey Ala-Too Mt. Range (Northern Tien Shan)

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The butterfly fauna of the Kungey Ala-Too Mt. Range comprises 181 species, among them 58 are identified for the first time. Zoogeographic analysis of this fauna showed that a complex of butterflies with wide ranges predominated, whereas representatives of the Central Asian ranges had a smaller portion by 20%. Nowadays, the Kungey Ala-Too is a bridge between the faunas of the Western Tien Shan (Alai) and Southern Siberia.

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Original Russian Text © S.K. Korb, 2009, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 9, pp. 1079–1089.

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Korb, S.K. The butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Kungey Ala-Too Mt. Range (Northern Tien Shan). Entmol. Rev. 89, 793–804 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809070057

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