South African Red Data list: butterflies

SANBI Biodiversity Series 13

Sandra Turck, Elizma Fouché

• Publisher: South African National Biodiversity Institute
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781919976518
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This publication, produced in cooperation with the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, fulfils the need for a revised South African Red Data Book for butterflies as well as for an improved proposed Red List of butterflies in South Africa. It highlights the presence of threatened species, provides a rationale for the listing of such taxa, and then identifies the actual threats facing these butterfly species. A review of the ecology of each species, if known, is given, enabling appropriate conservation action to be directed towards these threats. Research priorities that promote conservation management strategies for the species are also identified. A most useful tool for students, workers, managers, and decision-makers in conservation-related fields.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Red List of South Africanbutterflies
• Red List taxa accordingto the IUCN (2001)categorisation
• Statistics on proposedRed List taxa according tobiome unit (BU)
• Red-Listed species perprovince of South Africa
• Reviews of threatened species
• A framework for conservation management of South African butterflies inpractice
• Threatened butterflies in South Africa: trends since 1989 and a future perspective
• Annotated list of the SouthAfrican butterfly taxa withRed List assessments
• Photographs and maps
• References
• APPENDIX 1. IUCN Red Data Book Categories
• APPENDIX 2. An annotated checklist of previous Red Data Book species (S.F. Henning & G.A. Henning 1989) that are excluded from the present list
• APPENDIX 3. The IUCN Red List of 2002 with an indication of retained and excluded taxa
• Index