LPA - Around 1025 plant and animal species discovered by scientists in 24 hours on the GEO Biodiversity Day last weekend in the back Passeiertal, including a very rare butterfly. Was organized by the GEO Biodiversity Day, the Museum of Nature South Tyrol and the State Office for Nature Parks.
In the eleventh edition of the GEO Biodiversity Day, the Museum of Nature South Tyrol went to scientists this time a very rare butterfly species online. The rare butterfly is now described as new to science.
Scientists have durchkämt the Passeiertal 24 hours to animals and plants. Overall, they have shown about 1025 species. Through annual testing at the GEO Biodiversity Day is a valuable contribution to the documentation and conservation of the fauna and flora in the Alpine region made it says in the Nature Museum. The results are then entered into the database of the Natural History Museum in Bolzano.
the species collected this year to make the bulk of the vascular plants were recorded of which around 500. Furthermore, 105 species of butterflies, 100 oribatid species in South Tyrol still little explored, and found 70 different spiders and 50 species of birds. For vascular plants, the rare Drüßige Fleabane (Erigeron atticus) and demonstrated for the first time in Passeiertal also the feather grass (Stipa piumosa). Scientists have also discovered a rare type of fungus, namely the Entoloma alpicola. As for the birds, the golden eagle, the martins, the brown cups, the Dippers, the Water Pipit and Lesser Whitethroat features. Among the proven so rare butterflies such as the steppes bear (Hyphoraia testudinaria), the milkweed-moth (Hyles euphorbiae) and the thyme Maculinea (phengaris arion).
The GEO-Day Biodiversity has now become the largest field research campaign in Central Europe. The aim of the measure, no records, but the promotion of awareness of the diversity in his own front door, so the organizers. The events of recent years regularly been believed lost species have been rediscovered. The idea for Biodiversity Day is from the U.S. and was introduced by the German science magazine "Geo" in Europe. The data collected in South Tyrol, for example, scientific projects, or as a basis for nature conservation concerns.
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