Paulo Lemos

• Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Twenty species are added to the Portuguese Lepidoptera fauna, of which two are new for the Iberian Peninsula, and four species deleted, mainly as a result of fieldwork undertaken by the authors and others in 2023. In addition, second to fourth records for the country, new province records and new host-plant data for a number of species are included...

The Brown Hairstreak ( Thecla betulae L.) is one of the least observed butterflies of the Palaearctic region, even though its distribution spans from Portugal in the west, to Russia and Korea in the far east. Adults are arboreal and seldom descend to ground level. As a result, this species is mostly monitored via the detection of eggs on the food p...

An overview of 27 sites of botanical interest in mainland Portugal.

Six species of Orthoptera are reported as new to the Portuguese fauna: Cyrtaspis tuberculata Barranco, 2005, Natula averni (Costa, 1855), Oecanthus dulcisonans Gorochov, 1993, Pteronemobius heydenii (Fischer, 1853), Tetrix bipunctata kraussi Saulcy, 1888 and Stenobothrus grammicus Cazurro, 1888. The first documented records of Stenobothrus bolivari...