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Zoogeographic and landscape-biotopic analysis of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of the Republic of Belarus

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The chorological analysis of the Noctuoidea fauna of the Republic of Belarus is presented, and the faunistic lists for Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Pskov and Moscow Provinces, Poland, the Polish part of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, and Ukrainian Polesye are compared. The Trans-Palaearctic, Western Palaearctic, and Euro-Siberian species dominate in all the compared regions, which are grouped into two clusters. The first cluster includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the northern part of Belarus, and Moscow Province; adjacent to it is Pskov Province whose fauna is still insufficiently studied. The second cluster unites the central and southern parts of Belarus as well as the Polish part of Bialowieza Forest and Ukrainian Polesye. The landscape and biotopic distribution of Noctuoidea in Belarus is also considered. Most of the species are forest and meadow inhabitants. The first group is formed by predominantly meso- and hygrophilous species that initially inhabited natural open habitats, and also by mesophilous and meso-xerophilous species which have occupied various open habitats of secondary origin. The majority of the second group are mesophilous species trophically associated with trees, shrubs, and forest herbaceous vegetation.

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Original Russian Text © Ye.A. Derzhinsky, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 583–609.

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Derzhinsky, Y.A. Zoogeographic and landscape-biotopic analysis of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of the Republic of Belarus. Entmol. Rev. 96, 736–752 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816060063

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