A checklist of Butterflies in Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region, Ghana

The Atewa Range Reserve covers an area of 236.63 KM². The Atewa Range is internationally recognized as one of the highest priority rainforest ecosystems in West Africa for its high species diversity, high level of endemism and great hydrological importance (Larsen, 2006). Its butterfly diversity is outstanding with over 700 species projected to occur including the narrowly endemic Mylothris atewa Berger, 1980 and Abantis ja usheri Collins & Larsen, 2008 that also occurs only in a few upland forests in West Africa.

This dataset is a checklist of butterfly species recorded in the Atewa forest of Ghana between 1950-2019. The dataset comprises 636 taxa compiled from dataset records from Torben Larsen’s book, the Butterflies of West Africa, RAP survey by Conservation International (2007), African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya (ABRI), The Biodiversity of Atewa Report, Szabolcs Sáfián’s records as well as a review by Szabolcs Sáfián and Jeremy Lindsell in 2019. The dataset has also been aligned to taxonomic records of LepSoc Africa with a few variations. There were 87 records in the original dataset which are expected by Larsen but have not been confirmed and therefore have not been included in this publication.

阿特瓦山脉保护区覆盖面积达236.63平方公里。阿特瓦山脉因其物种多样性之高、特有物种之丰富以及水文重要性之大，被国际社会公认为西非最高优先级的雨林生态系统之一（Larsen，2006）。其蝴蝶多样性尤为突出，预计有700余种蝴蝶在此繁衍生息，其中包括狭窄分布的特有物种Mylothris atewa Berger，1980年和Abantis ja usheri Collins & Larsen，2008，这两种蝴蝶仅在非洲西部的少数高山森林中存在。该数据集收录了1950年至2019年间在加纳阿特瓦森林中记录的蝴蝶物种清单。数据集包含636个分类单元，这些单元来自托本·拉森的著作《西非蝴蝶》、国际保护组织（2007年）的RAP调查、位于肯尼亚内罗毕的非洲蝴蝶研究学院（ABRI）、阿特瓦生物多样性报告、Szabolcs Sáfián的记录，以及Szabolcs Sáfián和Jeremy Lindsell于2019年进行的评审。此外，该数据集已与非洲鳞翅目学会（LepSoc Africa）的物种分类记录进行了对齐，存在一些微小的差异。原始数据集中有87条记录，由拉森预期，但尚未得到确认，因此未被纳入本次出版物。