Mapping and monitoring of the Chequered Blue Butterfly Scolitantides orion

Anders Endrestøl; Roald Bengtson

doi:10.15468/ugfjs4

Mapping and monitoring of the Chequered Blue Butterfly Scolitantides orion

Citation

Endrestøl A, Bengtson R, Vang R (2024). Mapping and monitoring of the Chequered Blue Butterfly Scolitantides orion. Version 1.6. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ugfjs4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-07.

Description

The Chequered Blue Butterfly Scolitantides orion is one of the rarest and most threatened butterflies in Norway. According to The 2015 Norwegian Red List for Species, the Chequered Blue Butterfly is considered critically endangered (CR) in Norway. This is because a sharp decline in the species’ range in Norway has been observed, and that new surveys of old and other potential sites have not resulted in the discovery of new localities for the butterfly – except a new locality detected in Sponvika at Svinesund in Halden municipality in Østfold (Viken) county in 2017. The species is a prioritized species according to the Nature Diversity Act.

The dataset consists mainly of counts of eggs and larvae of The Chequered Blue Butterfly Scolitantides orion (as well as some adult individuals) in the period 2010-2023. The data are georeferenced with handheld GPS or on a mapsevice afterwards based on written descriptions of the site.

Purpose

Mapping and monitoring

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Yearly mapping of egg and larvae of Scolitantides orion in Halden and Tvedestrand municipalities

Sampling

Total coverage mapping of all egg and larva of Scolitantides orion in Norway in the periode 2010-2023.

Quality Control

None

Method steps

The method used is manually investigating all speciemen of the host plant Hylotelephium telephium in search for egg or larvae of Scolitantides orion on all localities over all distribution in Norway.

Taxonomic Coverages

Scolitantides orion
common name: Klippeblåvinge rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Oslofjorden, Norway

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Anders Endrestøl
originator
position: Research scientist
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
NO
email: anders.endrestol@nina.no
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/AAH-8719-2021

Roald Bengtson
originator
position: Expert
Private
NO

Roald Vang
metadata author
email: rv@nina.no
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4006-8689

Anders Endrestøl
administrative point of contact
position: Research scientist
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
NO
email: anders.endrestol@nina.no
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/AAH-8719-2021