Guide photographique des papillons de jour et zygènes de France.
Jean-Laurent Hentz, Jean-Pierre D’Hondt & Philippe Dauguet. Published by Gard Nature. 

Following 6 years of research and study, and aided by the participation of many specialists, the "Guide photographique des papillons de jour et zygènes de France" will be published this summer.

Format 15 x 21 cm, 500 pages. Nearly 300 species illustrated by 60 photographers, with images of both upper and underside of all male and female species to be found in France. Over 2,000 images, ID keys, species pages. Subscription open until 31st July 2021. Subscription price: 25€ plus p+p 10€ Europe (5€ France), after which the public price applies: 35€ plus p+p

For more information, sample pages and to order a copy of the book, see here: 
http://gard-nature.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021_souscription_papillons_de_france2.pdf

European Butterflies Magazine, Charaxes Publications, edited by Jason Sargerson. Issue 4 Spring 2021.

This is an A4 magazine, 36 pages.
Articles in the magazine cover: Butterflies in the Queyras Regional Park in France and in the Eastern Pyrenees in France. The further development of Corfu Butterfly Conservation is featured. A species rich Butterfly Garden in Bulgaria is described and illustrated with photographs and paintings. The search for the False Comma in Serbia is featured and also the discovery of new sites in Northern Italy. A wetland butterfly site in central Switzerland is described. There are features on variation in Cynthia’s Fritillary and the prospects for a butterfly tour in Herzegovina. Butterflies in Morocco are introduced by Wild Echo Tours.

Contributors are butterfly enthusiasts and include: Jim Asher, Dan Danahar, Dobromir Domuschiev, Robin Fox, Mario Langourov, David Moore, Dan and Rosemary Powell, Pete Smith and Ervin Szombathelyi.

Each page has a unique selection of photographs. All photographs are identified wherever possible with the butterfly, date and place. There are descriptions of butterfly sites in France, Bulgaria, Corfu, Italy, Herzegovina, Switzerland, Morocco and Serbia, with book and website reviews. Over 90 species illustrated, 140 colour photographs. See here for more information: https://jasonsargerson.uk/european-butterflies-issue-four-spring-2021.html

Available from Jason Sargerson, £9 including postage, details on his website: https://jasonsargerson.uk/

Guide des Papillons de Jour & Zygènes des Pyrénées. 

Authors: Jean-Louis Fourés, Etienne Urrustoy, Jude Lock, Bruno Serrurier and Philippe Dauguet from the association Natura pyrenaica.

The book covers the French Pyrénées, generally south of a line that runs from Bayonne on the Atlantic coast to Perpignan on the Mediterranean. It also includes the Val d'Aran and Andorra.

194 butterfly species and 30 Burnet & Forester Moths are described, all of which may be encountered in the area concerned. The guide contains almost 600 photos, plus 6 pages of caterpillar images and 6 pages of species identification by size and colour.

The format is a concise pocket paperback, designed for use in the field by the amateur enthusiast. 240 pages, 11cm x 18cm, text in French, species names also in English and Spanish. Price 18€ plus p+p.

Visit youtube here to see a short video on the layout and presentation of the book. 

Publication date is May 2021.
For more information and to reserve a copy please contact naturapyrenaica@gmail.com

Atlas des Papillons de Jour d'Aquitaine
Butterfly Atlas for the Aquitaine, France. Coordinated by Pierre-Yves Gourvil (CEN Aquitaine) & Mathieu Sannier (LPO). 

This Atlas follows on from the pre-Atlas of 2015. The CEN Aquitaine and their partners have continued to work on the inventory and mapping of butterflies in the Aquitaine.

With the help of 1,328 observers and 81 organisations, numerous records have been collected of 160 butterfly species during the preparation of the Atlas (including 3 previously unrecorded species). There is a monograph for each butterfly species including the ecology for each species, their habitat and host plants, distribution data with observations from 2000- 2009 and 2010-2019, the number of observations per decade, species conservation status and more.

Publish date May 2021, by Biotope Editions, edited in conjunction with the MNHN, approximately 400 pages, 16 x 24cm, price 35€ plus p+p, available in due course from https://leclub-biotope.com/en/

Online national seminars for the National Action Plan (PNA) for Butterflies, France.

The videos from the national seminars for the PNA butterflies of France of 22nd and 29th January are available to watch on replay.

The first seminar on the 22nd January for amateur enthusiasts was opened by Bérangère Abba, the secretary of state to the Minister of Ecological Transition, in charge of biodiversity. Two videos of PNA species were presented, the Marsh Fritillary and Woodland Brown, as well as presentations and interviews with conservationists.

The second session of the webinar, for experts working in conservation, was held on January 29th. Three video presentations of PNA species were shown for Southern Marbled Skipper, Clouded Apollo and the Violet Copper, as well as presentations and interviews with conservationists.

The first video is 1.49 hours long, the second 2.37 hours. Click on the following link to see the summary of each seminar and to watch the videos:  http://seminaires.papillons-libellules.fr/revivez-le-seminaire-national-du-pna-papillons-de-jour/

You can find all the information related to the National Action Plan for butterflies (PNA) on the dedicated website, see here:  https://papillons.pnaopie.fr/

ABLE - Field Guide to the butterflies of Slovenia. 

This new field guide available in English, aims to assist with field identification of 100 of the most common butterfly species found in Slovenia. The guide also serves as a support tool for those involved with the monitoring of butterflies through the methodologies standardised by eBMS throughout Europe.

Slovenian Butterflies 1 is a national field guide showing pictures of butterfly species that occur more frequently in the diverse ecosystems of Slovenia. The second field guide, Slovenian Butterflies 2 is being prepared.

You can download the Field Guide Slovenian Butterflies 1 in English (or Slovenian) as a free resource, in pdf directly to your device or print it from the website : https://butterfly-monitoring.net/bms-materials.

ABLE - Assessing Butterflies in Europe, eBMS - The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

Online seminar for the National Action Plan (PNA) for Butterflies, France.

A national seminar for the general public (video conference using zoom) will be held on Friday 22nd January 2021 from 9.30am - 11.30am. Short films on some of the PNA species will include the Marsh Fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia), Clouded Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne) and the Woodland Brown (Lopinga achine).
More information on the programme and how to book, can be found here:
http://seminaires.papillons-libellules.fr/seminaire-national-du-pna-papillons/

Click on "inscriptions" if you wish to attend the seminar and to receive the link to the presentations.

ABLE - Field Guide to the Butterflies of Cyprus. 

This guide available in English, aims to assist with field identification of 48 butterfly species, the most common species that you can see in Cyprus. The 8 page booklet also serves as a support tool for those involved in the Monitoring of Butterflies through the methodologies standardised by eBMS for all of Europe. The Field Guide is available to download and print, as a free resource, see here.

More details can be found on the eBMS website: https://butterfly-monitoring.net/bms-materials. Other guides in the series include; Italy by Regions, Andalucia-Spain, Castilla-La Mancha-Spain, and Common Species Portugal Continental.

ABLE - Assessing Butterflies in Europe, eBMS - The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

Identification key for the Zygaena of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France)
Ryelandt J., Jugan D. & Mora F. 

This useful identification guide for the Zygaena of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, has been produced by the Conservatoire Botanique national de Franche-Comté, in collaboration with the OPIE (Franche-Comté) and the Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun.

The guide is available as a free resource, 13 pages, in French, with distribution maps, see here.

Butterflies of the Levant and Neighbouring Areas (Southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, North-west Saudi Arabia & Cyprus). Vol. II: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Hesperiidae. By Dubi Benyamini and Eddie John. 

This is the first book to be published in a four-volume series. The current volume includes 92 species: 10 species of Swallowtails (Papilionidae), 45 species of Whites (Pieridae) and 37 species of Skippers (Hesperiidae).

This series includes all available present-day information for every butterfly species in the Levant. In addition to regular lists/catalogues and photographs of set specimens it presents photographs of all life-history stages, larval host plants and adults in their natural biotopes, plus 18 categories of ethology (behaviour), conservation status, actual distribution and flight period.

Published June 2020, hardback, 208 pages, price from £110 depending on the bookseller.

Il faut sauver nos insectes! By Denis Richard and Pierre-Olivier Maquart. 

Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate. This book portrays some of the emblematic and threatened species and the degradation of their environment. The message of the book is that there is still time to act, both individually and collectively. Published 15 October 2020 by Delachaux & Niestle, format 26cm x 26cm, 192 pages, in French, price 29.90€.
See here for an extract of the book:
https://ref.lamartinieregroupe.com/media/9782603027578/146201_extrait_Extrait_0.pdf

Guía de Bolboretas Baixa
A new Butterfly Guide for Pontevedra (Spain) in Galician and available here in pdf format

"Papillons de France" a photographic exhibition by Yves Lanceau and Nathalie Truchet, 1st July - 15th October 2020, Villeny, France. 

Yves and Nathalie presented their spectacular film, "Etonnants papillons d'Europe, l'envol par nature" at the Proserpine - and (formerly) EIG conference held at Digne-les-Bains in June 2013. The exhibition "Papillons de France" comprises a dozen photographs from their various collections, and is showing until the 15th October at la Maison du Cerf, 41220, Villeny, France. Further information can be found on the website for la Maison du Cerf: http://lamaisonducerf.e-monsite.com/pages/les-animations.html

LIFE Awards 2020. Project: LIFE-Aurinia. The successful reintroduction of Euphydryas aurinia (Marsh Fritillary) in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

LIFE Citizens' Prize. The LIFE Awards recognise the most innovative, inspirational and effective LIFE projects in three categories: climate action, environment and nature protection. A short video on the reintroduction of Euphydryas aurinia in northern Germany, can be found on the link below. Please consider voting for this worthwhile project, by clicking on ❤ VOTE FOR THIS PROJECT https://www.lifeawards.eu/?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=412#img

The contest is organised by the European Commission, and the aim of the voting campaign is to allow the public to choose the winner of the ‘Citizens’ Prize’ category within the LIFE Awards 2020. Participation is free of charge and the voting period runs until 21st October.

Guia de les Papallones Diürnes de Catalunya (Guide to the Diürnal Butterflies of Catalonia, Spain), by Roger Vila, Constantí Stefanescu and José Manuel Sesma. 

The Guia de les Papallones Diürnes de Catalunya sums up the biology, distribution and conservation status of the 202 species of diurnal butterflies known to exist in Catalonia. Hardback, 509 pages, colour photos, colour distribution maps, published 2018 by Lynx Edicions. Text in Catalan.  Constantí Stefanescu is the European Butterflies Group partner in Catalonia.

Further information in English and sample pages can be found on the Lynx Edicions website: https://www.lynxeds.com/product/guia-de-les-papallones-diurnes-de-catalunya/#.

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies. A celebration of Britain's 59 species by Jonathan Bradley with photographs by Yealand Kalfayan. 

This is a book of poems (with lots of other information, anecdotes and stories) about the 59 species of butterfly found in the UK. Forward by Julie Williams of Butterfly Conservation. The beautiful butterfly photographs have been taken by Yealand Kalfayan, an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and European Butterflies Group member who, like the author, has had a life-long fascination with butterflies and has looked for them throughout the UK and Europe.

Published by Merlin Unwin Books. Format: 230 x 214 mm, hardback, 92 pages with 141 colour photographs and 6 black & white photographs, price: £16.99. See here for more information.

A photographic guide. BUTTERFLIES of Central Europe and Britain by Peter Gergely

This useful field guide, produced by de Vlinderstichting (Dutch Butterfly Conservation) is available to download as a free resource in pdf, see here.
The guide includes 269 species occurring in Britain, Western and Central Europe.

New Field Guide to the Butterflies of Andalusia Spain, by ABLE.
ABLE recently produced a Field Guide to the Butterflies of Andalusia, in collaboration with the regional coordinators from the Sierra Nevada and Doñana National Parks and together with Miguel Munguira the BMS coordinator for Spain. This useful guide covers 93 species of the region, it also serves as an aid for those involved with butterfly monitoring.

The English version of the guide is available to download as a free resource, from the eBMS website : https://butterfly-monitoring.net/sites/default/files/Pdf/Field%20Guides/Field-Guide_SP_Andalucia_English%20(low).pdf  

ABLE - Assessing Butterflies in Europe, eBMS - The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

Papillons des Alpes by Gianluca Ferretti.
This guide book comprises 238 species of the alpine arc, covering  the Alps of  Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Published in January 2020 by Delachaux et Niestlé in the Guide Delachaux  series, format 14 cm x 23 cm, 351 pages, price 34.90€. Text in French.

Butterfly Atlas for the Val d'Oise department France - Atlas des papillons de jour du Val d’Oise.
The Val d'Oise is a department situated in the Île-de-France region. The atlas was initiated in 2014 in partnership with the OPIE (office pour les insectes et leur environnement) and presents the 70 species to be found in the department with their distribution, ecology and Red List status.
The atlas is based on 14,645 records and can be downloaded in pdf (45.9M) as a free resource here: https://www.valdoise.fr/ressource/424/9-l-atlas-des-papillons-de-jour-du-val-d-oise.htm 

You can download the regional Red List for the Île-de-France here: https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/news-27939-liste-rouge-papillons-idf.pdf

New mobile application from eBMS "Butterfly Counts App" a free resource. (See the News entry 8th March. Making your European butterfly observations count)

This Butterfly Counts App has been launched by the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme which is led by Butterfly Conservation Europe and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The application enables you to contribute to butterfly conservation by providing important information on where different species occur and the abundances in different places across Europe. Contribute with your counts of butterfly species alongside accurate location information, added via a dynamic map or via GPS acquired route information. You can upload photos to support the observations of your 15 Minute counts and you can also make visits visits to your eBMS transects directly with the app. There is a small species picture guide with photos per country. You just need to create an eBMS account and log in on the app. The information contributed to the app goes to eBMS and eventually to GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

See the link on the eBMS website explaining how to install the app and complete the 15-min count and transect visit step by step: https://butterfly-monitoring.net/ebms-app   

You can download a link to the Butterfly Counts App for Apple (iPhone, iPad) here:  https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/ebms/id146171137 and for Android here:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ceh.ebms&hl=en_GB   

Please note that due to COVID-19, Butterfly Conservation have requested that members do not to walk their transects at the present time.

European Butterflies Magazine, Charaxes Publications, edited by Jason Sargerson. Issue 3 Spring 2020.
The third issue of European Butterflies Magazine has been published. Format A4, 36 pages. More information and sample pages will be available shortly on Jason Sargerson's website, see here

From the editor. Articles in the magazine cover: Butterflies in the Piedmont Alps in Italy, in Valgaudemar in France and in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The development of Corfu Butterfly Conservation is featured. Conservation work of the European Butterflies Group in Spain is described.  Naturetrek describe the butterflies of Normandy in France. There are features on Cardinal Fritillaries in Switzerland and the Lapland Fritillary in Turkey. Articles also cover butterflies in North East Hungary, St Petersburg in Russia and in Eastern Turkey. Butterflies in Armenia are introduced by Wild Echo Tours.

Contributors are butterfly enthusiasts and include: Andy Adcock, Tom Brereton, Dan Danahar, James Gibbs, Mario Langourov, Gyorgy Liptovszky, Dave Maertens, David Moore, Nick Morgan and Mike Prentice.

Each page has a unique selection of photographs. All photographs are identified where possible with the butterfly, date and place.

Describes butterflies in sites in Spain, Hungary, Russia, Armenia, Corfu, Cyprus, Turkey, Switzerland, France and Italy.  Book Reviews, over 90 species illustrated and 140 colour photographs.

Making your European butterfly observations count.
Sam Ellis, Butterfly Conservation’s new International Director, has been working with Butterfly Conservation Europe and the EBG Committee to consider how best to ensure that members’ butterfly data can be recorded and used to help increase knowledge and conservation of butterflies. The following short paper has been authored by Sam and Chris van Swaay, Cristina Sevilleja and Martin Warren from Butterfly Conservation Europe. Further details on using iNaturalist.org and Observation.org and 15 minute counts for European butterfly recording  will be provided on the new International section of the Butterfly Conservation website, due to be live from April 2020. 
In order to conserve butterflies effectively we need to have good information on species distributions and trends in abundance. However outside parts of western and northwestern Europe such data is sparse. You can help us gather better data from across Europe in the following ways: 

• Conduct a butterfly transect. This provides high quality data on densities and trends (as well as distribution). The method is simple: make a transect of approximately 1 kilometre and try to count the butterflies each week in the flight season with good weather conditions. It does not matter if you miss a week or two, we can still make an estimate of the numbers. A detailed manual on how to set up and monitor a transect is available at this link. If you live in a country with an existing Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS) then the webpage of eBMS  will give you an overview who to contact. If you live in one of the other European countries without a BMS, you can make your own transect directly on the eBMS website. The project Assessing ButterfLies in Europe (ABLE) aims at filling the gaps for transect counts in Europe. 

• Conduct a 15 minute count. With the ButterflyCount smartphone app you can count butterflies for 15 minutes (and pause at any point to make a photo or identification). You can walk around, move along a path or stay in a field, as long as you enter all the butterflies (including the very common ones) using the app. The app has made it very simple to do so, it records the route with your phone GPS or you can draw yourself the area recorded. You can do one or more 15 minute counts anywhere in Europe as long as the weather is good enough for butterflies to be active.

• Such 15 minute counts are especially ideal for either remote locations (e.g. rare species on high mountain tops or other remote places) or when you are on holiday. You can do it everywhere: in the garden of your hotel, on the camping site, on a great butterfly spot, or simply along a field beside the road. All counts are welcome.

• Make casual records of butterflies you see and add them onto a database where they can be used for research and conservation. You can also enter any 'old' data as well. You can either enter data onto an existing national website (if one exists) or use one of the international websites observation.org or iNaturalist.org in the butterfly projectswhich accept records from anywhere in the world. All such data becomes available to researchers as well as BCE partners. Both these international systems have a smartphone app which you can use in the field, and you can also upload ‘old’ records from an excel file or enter your old observations via a web portal. Once verified, all data is gathered at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org). If you are worried about privacy or sensitive records, there are settings to control this. You can hide your observations from all other recorders or make them open. However, observations of rare of threatened species are almost always hidden and can only be viewed by administrators.

Any records you submit will improve our knowledge and help protect the butterflies we love. Butterflies are also useful indicators of changes in other less well known insect groups. Such knowledge thus helps us to understand changes in our environment and conserve wildlife as a whole.

EU Pollinator Initiative
On 1 June 2018, the European Commission adopted a Communication on the first-ever EU initiative on pollinators. The Initiative sets strategic objectives and a set of actions to be taken by the EU and its Member States to address the decline of pollinators in the EU and contribute to global conservation efforts. It sets the framework for an integrated approach to the problem and a more effective use of existing tools and policies.

Please see the attached letter from a collection of NGO's including Butterfly Conservation Europe, to the European Commission regarding the recent passing of a motion at the European Parliament on the Pollinator Initiative, and the need to tackle the decline in insects, particularly pollinators.

Guide pratique des papillons de France by Jean-Pierre Moussus, Thibault Lorin and Alan Cooper
This book presents the butterflies of metropolitan France and Corsica, with more than 680 photographs, 257 species monographs and identification key.  
Published in November 2019 by Delachaux et Niestlé, text in French, 414 pages, 15 x 21 cm, price 39€.

Distribution of Butterflies and Skippers in Europe. Mapping European Butterflies by Dr Otakar Kudrna
24 years mapping European butterflies 1995-2019, Dr. Otakar Kudrna
The publication contains the authors final report after 24 years of the research project “Mapping European Butterflies” (MEB).

Published by the Czech Butterfly Conservation Society (SOM), this Atlas is now available to purchase. Format A4, 364 pages, price 45 € plus postage. See here for further information and of details of how to order a copy of the Atlas

The butterflies of the Villars-Gryon by Guy Padfield
This book is a complete guide to the butterflies of the Villars-Gryon region of the Alpes Vaudoises in Switzerland, including a fully-illustrated appendix extending the coverage to the whole of Switzerland. 

Paperback, 175 pages price £24.99 plus p&p. For more information, sample pages and to order see here:  https://www.guypadfield.com/villarsgryonbook.html

Red List of Butterflies and Zygaenidae of Occitanie (France)
The Red List for Occitanie, was validated by the UICN (on the 7th November 2019) and by the CSRPN (on the 25th November 2019).

The Red List can be consulted on the CEN's website (link below). The detailed evaluation report in pdf, and the Red List in Excel format, can be downloaded from the website. In addition to the Red List for Occitaine, the Excel file includes the Red List for Europe (2010), France (2012), Catalogne (2018), Auvergne (2013), Rhône-Alpes (2018) and Aquitaine (2018). (Click on "Données" to consult the lists).
Of the 245 species evaluated, 57 species, or 23%, are considered as threatened (categories CR, EN or VU)

See here to consult the documents:
Red List Occitanie - Liste rouge des Lépidoptères rhopalocères et Zygènes d’Occitanie

Liste rouge des Papillons de jour d'Aquitaine - Butterfly Red List for the Aquitaine (France)
This Red List (published April 2019) was published as a 16 page booklet in November by the OAFS, in partnership with the CEN Aquitaine and the LPO Aquitaine. More than 21% of the 154 species evaluated are considered threatened.

The Red List is available to read here

Atlas papillons de jour & zygènes Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur. (Butterfly atlas for the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur)
This Atlas coordinated by the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is due for publication at the end of the year.
The region hosts an exceptional biodiversity of species, the atlas comprises 680,000 records, covering 260 species (87% of species in France) for the period 1834 – 2019. 550 pages, in French, available to pre-order from le Naturographe price 49€ plus postage.
For orders received before the 15th January 2020 the postage is included, after which date the postage to the UK (or France) will be 12.50€ 
(Payments can be made by PayPal in euros). See here for more information, sample pages and to order the Atlas.

The Butterflies of Russian Far East (Khabarovskiy and Primorskiy Kray, Jewish Autonomous and Amur Regions), Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. V. Tshikolovets, A. Streltzov (new book published 2019)
The Butterflies of Russian Far East is the fourteenth volume in the series, "The Butterflies of the Palaearctic Asia" and describes the  butterfly fauna of the Russian Far East (Khabarovskiy and Primorskiy Kray, Jewish Autonomous and Amur Regions), and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands.

This book differs from previously published works, not only by its rich illustrative material, but also that during its preparation all historical collections and almost all type material has been investigated, original descriptions and available literary sources have been studied. Species distribution maps are published for the first time. This book covers 308 species of Rhopalocera belonging to 5 families.  Approx. 4,000 illustrations. 472 pages, price 129€. The book can be ordered from Vadim Tshikolovets or Willy De Prins (also Natural History bookshops). Further information and to order see here.

E-book - Butterflies of Madeira by Roger Coghill

This electronic book includes over fifty photos, with detailed information on each species, their caterpillar food plants, and easy trails of where to find them. Download purchase price 6.99€, for further information and to purchase see here

Distribution of Butterflies and Skippers in Europe. Mapping European Butterflies.
24 years mapping European butterflies 1995-2019, Dr. Otakar Kudrna
The publication contains the authors final report after 24 years of the research project “Mapping European Butterflies” (MEB).
Format A4, approx 363 pages, price 48 € plus postage.The book is due to be published in December and available to purchase in January 2020, further information to follow in due course.

See here for further details.

Biodiv'Occitanie - GeoNat'Occitanie - OCNat (France)
This website is an online Atlas of the flora and fauna of Occitanie.
The records on the database are provided from a grouping of the naturalist associations in Occitanie and covers the enlarged region of Occitanie, France (previously Midi-Pyrénées and the Languedoc-Roussillon).
The website has been developed by the Parc National des Ecrins using GeoNature-atlas. Currently the site is still under construction, however, it can be consulted, to date the database comprises 675,578 observations for 10,318 invertebrate species.
See here for further information and to consult the atlas: https://biodiv-occitanie.fr/  

Alexanor - French Review of Lepidoptery.

Alexanor, the French Review of Lepidopterology, celebrates sixty years of existence this year. Founded in 1959 by Jean Bourgogne in the continuity of L'Amateur de Papillons, the Alexanor Review is dedicated to the butterflies and moths of France and more widely of the Western Palaearctic region.

2019 also marks for Alexanor the creation of their website. The website is currently under construction, although you can already see details of their various publications, summaries of previous reviews and abstracts of articles, some of which are available to downloadable in PDF. Information on the website, see here:  https://alexanor.org/

To mark the occasion they are offering an exceptional subscription offer for all new subscribers, more than 50% discount. For more information see here: https://alexanor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Promo-2019.pdf

Butterfly Conservation - Hawk-moth poster.

You can download the free Hawk-moth poster from BC's website here:
https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/why-moths-matter/mothsmatter/free-hawk-moth-id-guide/download-your-free-hawk-moth-id-guide.

European Butterflies Magazine, Charaxes Publications, edited by Jason Sargerson.

The 2019 issue of European Butterflies Magazine has been published. Format A4, 36 pages, see here for the cover page.
More information and sample pages will be available shortly on Jason Sargerson's website, see here

From the editor. Articles in the issue cover: Butterflies in the Sierra Nevada, Mountains in Spain, the Monte Universales in Spain and the Champsaur Valley in France. Conservation work of the European Butterflies Group is described. A Naturetrek butterfly holiday in Hungary is featured. There are special features on hill-topping butterflies in Spain and Italy and on Asian Fritillaries in Switzerland and Large Tortoiseshells in the Rhone Valley in Switzerland. Butterflies in Bulgaria are described by Wild Echo Tours.

Contributors are butterfly enthusiasts and include: Dominic Couzens, Dobromir Domuschiev, Robin Fox, James Gibbs, David Moore, Nick Morgan and Simon Spencer. Each page has a unique selection of photographs. All photographs are identified where possible with the butterfly, date and place.

The magazine describes butterflies in sites in Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Switzerland, France and Italy, with over 90 species illustrated and 140 colour photographs.

Parc National des Ecrins (France) Liste provisoire des Lépidoptères du Parc national des Écrins, by Jacques Nel, Thierry Varenne, Patrick Rosset & Damien Combrisson. This atlas is a supplement to volume XXVII of the Revue de l’Association Roussillonnaise d’Entomologie.
Published in 2019, it lists the 2697 species of the Ecrins National Park, with 426 species photographs and some habitat photographs. Format A4, 88 pages, price £39.99 available from nhbs see here

DVD Swiss Butterflies: West (2019) by Jason Sargerson. From the publisher: This original 90 minute film of butterflies in Western Switzerland shows easily accessible butterfly sites. Bern, Geneva, Jura, Ticino, Valais and Vaud are visited, including the Lütschine Valley, Laubach Valley, Allondon Valley, Tabeillon Valley, Melezza Valley, Rhone Valley, Val d’Anniviers, Trient Valley, Vispa Valley and Saas Valley. A varied range of habitat is featured, including Woodland, Wetland, Rocky Steppe, Mountain and High Mountain. Butterfly subspecies found in specific locations are highlighted. Butterflies filmed include: Asian Fritillary, Bath White, Cardinal, Grison’s Fritillary, Large Copper, Large Tortoiseshell, Poplar Admiral, Scarce Large Blue and Woodland Brown. A species list, site by site is included.
More than 90 species filmed, from 2014 to 2018. See here for two short clips on YouTube. Details to follow on Jason's website.

Artemisiae. Internet database for the Lepidoptera of France. Artemisiae is a new internet portal for the butterflies of metropolitan France and Corsica, developed by our partners at oreina.
Artemisiae is a tool created for the recording and validation of Butterflies, Moths, Micromoths, Burnet and Forester Moths using the latest national taxonomy TAXREF.
In the first 2 months more than 185,000 records were entered or imported into the database. See here.
You can watch the explanatory video on YouTube here

National Action Plan (Plan national d'actions) butterflies of France 2018 - 2028. National Action Plans are strategic tools from the French Ministry in charge of biodiversity issues. They are intended to ensure the maintenance or restoration of populations of endangered species or species of special interest within a conservation status.
Plan national d'actions butterflies of France 2018 - 2028 (7mb) - Please refer to pages 10 and 11 for the priority species lists.

Updated checklist of European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). An updated checklist of European Butterflies has been published. See here for the link to the article.    
This public paper presents an updated checklist of the butterflies of Europe, together with their original name combinations, and their occurrence status in each European country. Article by: Martin Wiemers, Emilio Balletto, Vlad Dincă, Zdenek Faltynek Fric, Gerardo Lamas, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Miguel L. Munguira, Chris A. M. van Swaay, Roger Vila, Albert Vliegenthart, Niklas Wahlberg, Rudi Verovnik.

European Marsh Award 2018 to Professor Constanti Stefanescu. Constanti Stefanescu is that rare scientist - someone who combines a powerful intellect with a human touch that inspires and informs everyone around him.  He  devoted much of his professional career to co-ordinating the Catalonian Butterfly Monitoring Scheme which he has been running since its inception in 1994; a remarkable 24 years of hard work and dedication. As a result of his infectious enthusiasm he has successfully engaged many hundreds of volunteers and generated invaluable data on this very diverse part of Europe.

Butterfly ID guides. The first European Butterflies Group identification guides are now available on the website. These are for Pieris and Gonepteryx, see here. Many thanks to Bill Raymond.

New study from France highlighting the importance of landscapes with a mosaic of habitats.
Research article. Online access to this article has been provided by Springer Nature SharedIt.
Landscape drivers of butterfly and burnet moth diversity in lowland rural areas.
Authors, Frédéric Archaux, Claire Lorel and Anne Villemey.
See here

Bulgaria Butterflies -  Nikolay Shtinkov
The Butterflies of Bulgaria Android app is now available on Google Play.
See here:  http://bulgariabutterflies.com/app.html

Papillons des Pyrénées. Compte-rendu d’inventaire élémentaire des papillons diurnes des Pyrénées, Volume 2 Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae by Jean-Louis Fourès.
Almost 200 butterfly species populate the Pyrénées, in this second volume Jean-Louis covers the 91 species of the Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae families.
Published by Editions La Cassignole, 2018, paperback 16 x 24 cm, 320 pages, price 34,50 €. Text in French, available from Editions La Cassignole, regional bookshops in France and from the author at jeanlouis.foures@orange.fr
See here for further information.
See here for the 36 minute video on YouTube, narrated by Jean-Louis about his life, work, passion for the natural world, butterflies and his book.

New magazine. European Butterflies Magazine, Charaxes Publications, edited by Jason Sargerson.
This is a new butterfly enthusiasts magazine covering Europe, and includes articles about Individual Species, Conservation, Life Cycle, Field Trips and Butterfly Sites.

The first issue, Spring 2018 is now available from Jason. Format A 4, 32 pages, price £7.50 including postage (UK). More information and sample pages on Jason Sargerson's website, see here

UICN Regional Red List of Butterflies (Rhopalocères et Zygènes) of the ex-region Rhône-Alpes, France.
Published March 2018.
The Red List of Butterflies and Zygaena of the Rhône-Alpes was initiated in 2017 by the DREAL* Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and implemented by Flavia, in collaboration with many specialists, naturalists and environmental structures.

The former Rhône-Alpes** region comprises the Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie and hosts nearly 88% of the butterfly species present in mainland France, making it the richest area of France.

Of the 266 species and 2 subspecies of butterflies and Zygaena present, 10.6% are considered endangered, although it would appear that no species has yet completely disappeared.

This Regional Red List also shows the current decline of species, even in the mountains.

For more information and to download the Regional Red List, see here

Information kindly communicated by Yann Baillet of Flavia, Association pour les Papillons et leur Etude, and European Butterflies Group partner for the Rhône-Alpes.

 *  DREAL: Direction régionale de l'environnement, de l'aménagement et du logement
 ** Rhône-Alpes is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Biohistoire des papillons, 2ème état des lieux.
The AER (Atlas entomologique régional [Nantes]) has just published the "Biohistoire des papillons, 2ème état des lieux", compiled by Jean-Alain Guilloton. This 120 page colour atlas documents the butterfly recordings from the period 2006-2015 and follows on from the book "Biohistoire des papillons. Diversité et conservation des lépidoptères rhopalocères en Loire-Atlantique et en Vendée" by Christian Perrein, (published 2012) which was presented at the conference in Digne les-Bains in 2013.

Details on the website here. Sample pages here and order form here. 

La collection des papillons et les espèces menacées d'Auvergne.
Les collections du Muéum Henri-Lecoq, Volume V111 - Zoologie.
Authors, Philippe Bachelard and Marie-Françoise Faure

The Henri-Lecoq Museum in Clermont-Ferrand is pleased to announce the publication of its latest booklet, which is dedicated to the museum's butterfly collections and the endangered species of the Auvergne, France. See here for more info.

The museum houses important Lepidoptera collections totalling 100,000 specimens, these are an important resource for the study of historical butterfly populations, and have been used to establish the Regional List of threatened species for the Auvergne.

88 pages, 17 x 24 cm, 132 illustrations, price €10, to order: dvogt@clementmetropole.eu

Crossbill Guides: Dordogne, France. Authors, David Simpson and Frank Jouandoudet. Publication date April 2018

This new title in the Crossbill Guides covers the well-known region of Dordogne in south western France.

The book describes the flora and fauna, landscape, history and conservation of this region, plus 21 detailed routes and around 23 sites with specific suggestions on where and how to find the birds, wildlife and flora.

David is a wildlife guide living in the Dordogne, the local contact for European Butterflies Group and a former nature reserve warden of Ravenglass Reserve.

Paperback, €28.95, 256 pages, 21 x 15 cm, ISBN: 978-9491648137. See here

Details of a discount for European Butterflies Group members can be found in the Spring 2018 Newsletter.
For a 50 page preview of the book see here

Swiss Butterflies: East
DVD by Jason Sargerson.
From the publisher: This is an original film of butterflies in Eastern Switzerland. Easily accessible butterfly sites in Graubünden, Uri and Schwyz are visited, including the Albula Valley, Alp Valley, Beverin Valley, Oberalppass, Inn Valley, Poschiavo Valley and Rhine Valley.
More than 60 species filmed, over four years, from 2014 to 2017.
See here for more information 

A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America, Jeffrey Glassberg. A photographic field guide to almost all of Mexico's butterfly species and many of Central America's
Revised second edition. Softback, 304 pages, 3,250 colour photos and maps. 2018, Princeton University Press, price £32.95.

Film. Papillons de France en liberté, by Thierry Carabin. In this film, butterflies were filmed over a five year period in their natural environment, from sea level up to 3,000 meters of altitude Of the 200 species filmed, 180 are featured in the 48 minute version of film, including Spanish Fritillary, Scarce Fritillary, Scarce Large Blue, Southern Swallowtail and Provence Hairstreak.
There are sequences showing butterfly emergence, the territorial behaviour of butterflies, butterflies in flight, courtship displays, mating, egg-laying, as well as sequences showing the wild flowers of the various habitats.
You can see the video trailer here

Papillons des Pyrénées. Compte-rendu d’inventaire élémentaire des papillons diurnes des Pyrénées, Volume 1 Papilionidae et Nymphalidae by Jean-Louis Fourès. Jean-Louis is a passionate amateur entomologist, he is a farmer and cheese-maker in the department of the Haute-Garonne, Occitanie (previously Midi-Pyrénées).
He is originally from Bagnères de Bigorre in the Hautes Pyrénées, and has spent his life in the mountains and valleys of the Pyrénées where he developed a passionate interest in butterflies.
This book is the fruit of his observations and studies, he shares his knowledge of the butterflies of the French Pyrénées, Andorra and the Val d'Aran with more than 600 photographs, 91 species and butterfly landscapes. All photographed across the Pyrénées, from the Pyrénées-Orientales to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
A second book is underway and will include the other families.
Published by Editions La Cassignole, 2017, paperback 16 x 24 cm, 320 pages, price 34,50 €. Text in French, available from bookshops in France. See here
You can watch the video on YouTube here

New. Les Papillons de jour du Poitou-Charentes, France.
This book, covering the four departments of the Poitou-Charentes, has survey details covering a period of over ten years.
It is illustrated with more than 300 photographs,140 maps and contains 260,000 observations.
Special launch offer €28.50 (5% discount).
Sample pages on Calmeo, see here
Further information and to order on the Poitou-Charentes Nature website, see here

Butterfly Conservation’s European Interests Group changes name to Butterfly Conservation’s European Butterflies Group 
When EIG was started in 2006 it was described to Butterfly Conservation (BC) Council as a way of bringing together those members of BC who were ‘interested’ in European Butterflies.  We were therefore set up as Butterfly Conservation’s ‘European Interests Group’ which soon became shortened to EIG.  Now with over 450 members and contacts and partnerships all over Europe we are recognized as a valuable source of information, expertise and in several countries where we have done surveys, as ‘boots on the ground’. 

However, ‘European Interests Group’ is incomprehensible to foreigners, does not appear to have anything to do with butterflies and requires the Butterfly Conservation prefix to make any sense.  It is invariably shortened to EIG which is just as incomprehensible and also does not appear to have anything to do with butterflies.

EIG Committee has determined that the name should be changed from ‘Butterfly Conservation’s European Interests Group’ to ‘Butterfly Conservation’s European Butterflies Group’. ‘European Butterflies Group’ is self-explanatory.  It is less likely to be shortened as it does what it says on the tin.  We have secured the domain name www.european-butterflies.org.uk which will give us a much higher hit rate on search engines for anyone looking for ‘European Butterflies’.  
In all other aspects we will remain exactly the same.  There will be changes to our website etc, bank account, BC’s membership documentation etc.  We have a new logo based on the existing logo.  The website etc has now been changed but anyone with a link to www.bc-eig.org.uk will be redirected automatically to www.european-butterflies.org.uk.

Simon Spencer
Chairman
Butterfly Conservation’s European Butterflies Group

Les invertébrés dans la ­conservation et la gestion des espaces naturels
The proceedings from the conference held in Toulouse (France), from 13-16 May 2015, are available from the MNHN website (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris).
Scientific publications, collection patrimones naturels, volume 76, 29 Nov 2017, price 28€. Conference coordinated by Nicolas GOUIX & Daniel MARC from the Conservatoire d'espaces naturels Midi-Pyrénées.
Summary see here
Further information, and to order see here

European Marsh Award 2017 to Professor László Rákosy
László is the pre-eminent Lepidopterist in Romania and is an expert on both macro and micro-moths. His knowledge has led to the publication of the Catalogue of Romanian Lepidoptera, documenting over 4,000 species from across the country.
Read more here

A photographic guide to INSECTS of southern Europe and the Mediterranean by Paul D. Brock. This new and eagerly awaited book by Paul D. Brock is now available from Pisces Publications, NatureBureau.
Paul is a scientific associate of the Natural History Museum, London, and acclaimed author of A Comprehensive Guide to Insects of Britain & Ireland (Pisces 2014).
The number of species in southern Europe and the Mediterranean is enormous compared to that of Britain.
This guide covers representative species from most insect orders, including many endemic species, concentrating on what the naturalist, photographer, or holidaymaker is likely to find.
It is the first English language book to offer a comprehensive guide to the species of southern Europe.
Over 412 pages, with more than 2000 colour photographs, and 1500 distribution maps, it covers all the major insect groups to be found in the region. Flexibound, £27.50. See here

Atlas des Papillons « de jour » du Nord – Pas-de-Calais, 2000-2014. Lépidoptères Papilionoidea.  France. This is volume 2 of the collection: Faune de Nord - Pas-de-Calais by GON (Groupe ornithologique et naturalistes du Nord - Pas-de-Calais, animated by Daniel Haubreux).
It is the result of 15 years of data collecting, recording and research, from 646 contributors and 17 technical partners. The volume comprises 494 pages and covers 96 species.
There are over 500 illustrations including photos, designs, watercolours, graphs, distribution maps etc.
The preface is by Tristan Lafranchis. The following 11 chapters cover themes such as the history of the working group on the Lépidoptères Papilionoidea, Nord - Pas-de-Calais, the presentation of the regional Red List of threatened butterfly species, the list of regional heritage butterfly species and the regional plan of action for the conservation of butterflies and their habitats.
Chapter 6 forms the heart of the Atlas, it is dedicated to the species monographs which comprise more than half of the book.
Price 35 € plus postage. To order:
·         Postal address: GON - 23 rue Gosselet, 59 000 Lille, France
·         Email: contact@gon.fr Website: https://gon.fr/gon/produit/atlas-des-papillons-de-jour/

Information communicated by Robin Quevillart (European Butterflies Group partner, GON)

Identification key for the Lycaenidae of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France).
New. Detailed and illustrated identification guide of the Lycaenidae of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté from the Conservatoire botanique national de Franche-Comté - Observatoire régional des Invertébrés.
Theclinae: 8 species, Lycaeninae: 7 species, Polyommatinae: 25 species, Riodininae: 1 species.
See here

Index for European Butterflies Group Newsletters 1 to 21
An updated index of the contents of all European Butterflies Group Newsletters up to and including the tenth anniversary magazine has been prepared by Graham Revill and is now on the website, see here

New exhibition. The Apollo butterfly, Muséum Henri-Lecoq, France.
16 May - 1 October 2017 at the Muséum Henri-Lecoq, 15 rue Bardoux, Clermont-Ferrand.
The Apollo is threatened with extinction in Auvergne. The Museum Henri-Lecoq has devoted an exhibition to this species (see here). Information supplied by Philippe Bachelard, SHNAO partner of the Muséum and European Butterflies Group partner for the Auvergne.

Updated species checklist There is now an updated species checklist on the website, as published in the recent magazine, see here

European Butterflies Group Magazine - additional copies The European Butterflies Group's tenth anniversary magazine 'Butterflies IN EUROPE' has articles on many of the best butterfly regions in Europe as well as an up-to-date checklist of European butterfly species.  Copies were posted to members in May 2017.  A supply of additional copies is held by Butterfly Conservation in Wareham and they may be purchased by members and non-members at £5 per copy including postage.  The maximum purchase is five.  Cheques should be made payable to Butterfly Conservation European Butterflies Group Branch and sent to Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QP.  Payment may also be made by bank transfer - phone 01929 400209 or email info@butterfly-conservation.org for details.

See here for the cover page of the magazine

European Butterflies Group Newsletter The European Butterflies Group Anniversary Magazine, May 2017, 'Butterflies IN EUROPE' has been dispatched to members. Our thanks go to Nigel Peace, the European Butterflies Group Newsletter Editor.
See here for the cover pages of the magazine.

European Butterflies Group Bursaries The 2017 European Butterflies Group bursaries of £500 have been awarded to Mathew Sparks who will join an European Butterflies Group team surveying in Mount Taygetos, Greece for Acantholimon androsaceum the foodplant of Turanana taygetica (Odd Spot Blue).  He will use a drone to assist in surveying remote areas of the mountain. A second bursary has been awarded Will Langdon for a project on Scarce and Dusky Large Blues (Maculinea telejus and nausithous) in Hungary.  There were two applications and we have awarded two bursaries.
In line with our policy of encouraging young people to get involved with European butterflies both applicants are either at University or recent graduates.  The closing date for 2018 applications is 17/04/2018 see here

A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Northern Europe, by Ted Benton
New book written by our European Butterflies Group colleague, Ted Benton. Comprehensive identification guide to the 159 butterfly species found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and the Baltics. Detailed species descriptions, wingspan, distribution and habitat. The introduction covers living with butterflies, anatomy, behaviour, ecology, distribution and conservation. Paperback, 176 pages, 300 photographs, price £11.99. Publisher John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd. http://johnbeaufoy.com/ Available in book stores. Summary is here
21st May 2017 a review by Martin Davies of this book is here

Butterfly Atlas of Bretagne (Britanny, France) This Atlas is due to be published in June 2017. In French. 324 pages, with over 300 photographs, covering the current status of the butterflies of Britanny. Almost 110,000 records for the period 2000- 2015 and 10,000 historical records, including the analysis of the main Breton collectors. Monographs of the 89 species present or extinct, biology, regional status, distribution maps etc. Special pre-publication price 22€ plus postage until 31st May 2017. Further information on the Bretagne Vivante website, see here:

http://www.bretagne-vivante.org/Actualites/SOUSCRIPTION-Atlas-des-papillons-diurnes-de-Bretagne

Order form is here

'A photographic guide to insects of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean' New. 'A photographic guide to insects of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean' by Paul D. Brock, Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, London. This book covers all the major insect groups of this region. 'Pre-publication price £19.95, offer ends 31 August 2017. More information and order form here

Butterfly Conservation Europe - Activity Report 2016
The Butterfly Conservation Europe, Activity Report for 2016 can be consulted here
European Interests Group assisted with the Report by asking Matthias Dolek to summarise progress to date on the Colias myrmidone project which European Butterflies Group has supported both financially and with volunteer time. Simon Spencers report is on page 15 of the PDF.

Diatheo : updates Distribution maps have been recently updated and a bibliography added. See here:
http://diatheo.weebly.com/cartes-et-bibliographies-avec-mises-agrave-jour.html
(Click on the species for the PDF)
For an example, the pdf for Aricia nicias can be seen here:
http://diatheo.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/2/3/28235851/aricia_nicias__bib.pdf

Papillons de France by Tristan Lafranchis (in French) has recently been updated, reprinted and is now available.
Butterflies of Europe is available as a PDF, in English price 15€.

Papillons du Jura by Jean-Claude Gerber This reference book describes the butterflies and Burnet moths that can be found in the Jura mountains of Switzerland and the Franche-Compté, (French Jura). 368 pages, beautifully illustrated with watercolour drawings, photographs and line drawings. Published December 2016, hardback, in French, price CHF 58.
Example pages and order form here: http://www.papillonsdujura.ch/livre
(The book can also be purchased in the UK, including from Pemberley books at £65)

National Plan of Action for Maculinea (Phengaris). France. Plan National d'Actions en faveur des Maculinea (PNA). You can download the PNA report 2011 - 2015, from the Website dedicated to the National Plan of Action. In French.
See here for the report

Swiss Butterflies Site Guide 2016 by Jason Sargerson This book describes 30 top butterfly sites in Bern, Geneva, Graubünden, Jura, Schwyz, Ticino and Valais. Paperback, 35 pages, in English, price £10 including postage. Jason is also the author of Swiss Butterflies. Second edition 2016.
Front cover here
Further details on Jason's website, see here

NEW - Pyrgus ID key for France by Cédric Jacquier. Photos Roger Gibbons and Stéphane Bence. See here

Dr Martin Warren awarded OBE for services to the environment in the 2017 New Year Honours list. Martin has just retired as Chief Executive of BC, Martin has devoted his working life and the majority of his spare time to protecting butterflies and moths, read more here

Les Procris de France / French Forester Moths (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Procridinae & Chalcosiinae), Eric Drouet The aim of the edition is to help facilitate the identification of the 14 species of Forester Moths present in France. 128 pages in French and English, 30€ plus postage. This comprehensive information has been compiled by GIRAZ over a 15 year period, and comprises detailed monographs, distribution maps, water colours, photographs of species in their natural habitat, figuration of genitalia etc. For more information and the order form see here

Online Atlas for the fauna and flora of the Parc National des Ecrins - France. Over 500,000 records for 4,077 species can be consulted from the online Atlas.
Records comprise data submitted by Parc National staff, since the creation of the Parc National des Ecrins in 1973.
From the "Homepage" http://biodiversite.ecrins-parcnational.fr/  enter the species name under "rechercher une éspece", to see the species data sheet.

As an example, you can see the species data sheet for Boloria napaea: Mountain Fritillary, here:  http://biodiversite.ecrins-parcnational.fr/espece/53923

You can read a descriptive of the Atlas on the "journal du Parc" here: http://www.ecrins-parcnational.fr/dossier/biodiv-ecrins-connaissance-direct

National Plan of Action (PNA) and the Regional Red List of butterflies and Zygaena for the Île de France. The National Plan of Action for Maculinea [phengaris], which was presented at the Proserpine / European Butterflies Group conference at Digne-les-bains in 2013, came to an end in 2015. The next stage of the National Plan of Action will include additional species, such as protected and threatened species as well as those of special local interest. An initial list of species has been drawn up by the MNHN, to be ratified by the Minister of the Environment over the coming months.

You can see the Regional Red List of butterflies and Zygaena, for the Île de France here.

Pré-Atlas des rhopalocères et zygènes d’Aquitaine, France. The pré-atlas is available to download from the Faune-Aquitaine website of the LPO http://www.faune-aquitaine.org, and will be available to download shortly from the website of the CEN Aquitaine http://www.cen-aquitaine.org.
See here for the link to the pré-atlas.

Records towards the Atlas are welcomed, by our colleague David Soulet, please see the Requests page.

European Marsh Award 2016 to Rudi Verovnik
Rudi Verovnik, BCE's Slovenian board member, received the 2016 Marsh Lepidoptera Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Lepidoptera Conservation and Research in Europe from Martin Warren. Read more here

Papillons du Loiret, Atlas des Rhopalocères et Zygènes du Loiret (France). Co-edited by the Société pour le Muséum d'Orléans et les Sciences and by Alexanor, published December 2015. In French.
This atlas of butterflies and burnet moths includes a synthesis of 36,000 records, covering the period 2000 - 2013.
344 pages,authors Frédéric Archaux (watercolours), Patrice Chatard, Franck Faucheux, Antoine Lévêque, in colaboration with Michèle Bichaud.
See more info here Price 38€, further information and to order: somosorleans(at)gmail.com

New - Butterflies of Europe and neighbouring regions by Patrice LERAUT (author of Moths of Europe) NAP Editions, published
16 September 2016. English version, hardback.

Information and example pages on the NAP Editions website:
http://www.napeditions.com/en/39-butterflies-of-europe-and-neighbouring-regions.html
The book is also available from Pemberley, price £79
http://www.pemberleybooks.com/product/butterflies-of-europe-and-neighbouring-regions/30392/

The IUCN Mediterranean Red List, of Threatened Species

All species assessments, of the Mediterranean Red List can be found here: http://www.iucnredlist.org/initiatives/mediterranean.
The report 'The status and distribution of Mediterranean Butterflies' can be downloaded here: https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/46183

New butterfly identification guide for Switzerland, from Lepido.ch.

'Guide d'identification des papillons de jour de Suisse'.
Michel and Vincent Baudraz (lepido.ch, butterflies of Switzerland)
192 pages, 216 species, price CHF 30, text in French, published July 2016.
Full details here: http://www.lepido.ch/guide-d-identification

New - Volume 4 of The Bibliography of the Lepidoptera of France, by Sylvain Delmas.
Volume 4 includes corrections and additions to the previous 3 volumes and an update, to cover the period from 2011 - 2015.

Price for volume 4 is 15€ plus postage, for non-members. Bon de commande_20 juin 2016.pdf

New - Moth atlas for Lower Normandy & the Channel Islands.
This book covering the 359 moths known in Lower Normandy & the Channel Islands can be pre-ordered at a discount price of 35€ plus postage 18€ until 31 July 2016, after which the book is full price, available Sept 2016. Order form is here

New - Atlas des papillons de l'Orne - Butterflies of the Orne, Normandy, France, 1980-2010. Price 35€.
Order here, example extract here