Much More Butterfly Species in Crete than Previously Known

The variety of butterflies in Crete is much larger than previously known. This is shown by a new inventory of species for the Greek island, which the Tyrolean butterfly researcher Peter Huemer has created with colleagues. As they report in the journal "Insects", the occurrence of 1,230 species has been confirmed - 125 of which are new finds for the island. According to genetic fingerprints, about ten percent of the species recorded are "nameless…