Records of Insecta species in Ukraine according to some literature and authorized Internet resources

Occurrence
Latest version published by Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) on Jul 4, 2025 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)
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Publication date:
4 July 2025
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Description

The dataset includes sightings of insects in Ukraine that have been published in select important scientific publications and authorized online sources. This information is significant in the context of assessing the consequences of the russian-Ukrainian war and therefore mainly includes data on insects from the Steppe zone of Ukraine, which, since 2022, has been almost entirely affected by military actions or has fallen under occupation. Scientific research in this area has been halted, and the territory has suffered considerable damage due to shelling, bombings, the construction of fortifications, and wildfires. Additionally, invasive plant species have begun to spread spontaneously across the region. All previously collected information on the biodiversity of these areas has now become historical and may be used in the future to assess the impacts of the war. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to preserve the data itself. Some authors, particularly those who previously maintained personal websites featuring insect photographs and collections, have ceased work on these sites and left Ukraine. Some such websites have gone offline (for example, https://lepidoptera.crimea.ua/index.htm) and now exist only in web archives. This dataset is dynamic and will be gradually supplemented with new data from additional sources, which will be further processed by the authors. The dataset includes the findings of Lepidoptera representatives in the steppe zone of Ukraine according to several literature resources, namely: 1) Zlatkov B., Budashkin Yu. Taxonomic and distributional remarks on some Palaearctic Cydia of the succedana-group with descriptions of two new species (Tortricidae). Nota lepi. 35 (1): 97 – 107; 2) Савчук В. В., Кайгородова Н. С. Новые сведения по фауне и биологии чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Крыма. Часть II. Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень. 2020. 16(2): 255–264; 3) Karolinskiy Ye. A., Demyanenko S. A., Guglya Yu. A., Zhakov A. V., Kavurka V. V., Mushinskiy V. G.. On the fauna of Lepidoptera (Insecta) of the national nature park ‘Dvorichanskyi’ (Kharkiv region, Ukraine) and its environs. Contribution 2. The Kharkov Entomol. Soc. Gaz. 2018. Vol. XXVI, iss. 1. P. 55–114; 4) Будашкин Ю. И. Материалы по фауне Чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Казантипского природного заповедника. Труды Никитского ботанического сада – Национального научного центра. 2006. Том 126. С. 263-290. 5) Ключко, З. Ф.Аннотированный каталог совок (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) фауны Украины : монография / З. Ф. Ключко, И. Г. Плющ, П. Н. Шешурак. - Киев : Институт зоологии НАН Украины, 2001. - 880 с. 6) https://lepidoptera.crimea.ua/index.htm 7) https://alsphotopage.com/

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 26,705 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Marushchak M, Marushchak O, Vasyliuk O, Pozniak D, Biatov A (2025). Records of Insecta species in Ukraine according to some literature and authorized Internet resources. Version 1.12. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=lepidopterastep1&v=1.12

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2ccf651c-2974-4ac5-807c-dd43cb7de973.  Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; insects; steppe; butterflies; Ukraine; Insecta; insects; arthropods; web archive; literature; published data; Occurrence

Contacts

Maksym Marushchak
  • Originator
  • naturalist
Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group
Kyiv
UA
Oleksii Marushchak
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Custodian Steward ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
  • Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
UA
  • +380964882670
Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Originator
  • junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
  • Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
UA
  • +380964882670
Dmytro Pozniak
  • Originator
UA
Anton Biatov
  • Originator
UA

Geographic Coverage

The dataset consists of finds of Lepidoptera from the territory of Ukraine (Kharkiv region, Autonomuos Republic of Crimea) and several registration points from Bulgaria and Moldova.

Bounding Coordinates South West [41.789, 22.163], North East [52.266, 40.156]

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset includes representatives of Insecta class.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1821/2021

Sampling Methods

The methodology includes the search for important authoritative sources on insect occurrences within the territory of Ukraine (primarily within regions affected by the full-scale war since 2022) and the digitalization of information regarding the locations and dates of these occurrences. All information of the registration points of Lepidoptea was excluded from the following publications: 1) Zlatkov B., Budashkin Yu. Taxonomic and distributional remarks on some Palaearctic Cydia of the succedana-group with descriptions of two new species (Tortricidae). Nota lepi. 35 (1): 97 – 107; 2) Савчук В. В., Кайгородова Н. С. Новые сведения по фауне и биологии чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Крыма. Часть II. Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень. 2020. 16(2): 255–264; 3) Karolinskiy Ye. A., Demyanenko S. A., Guglya Yu. A., Zhakov A. V., Kavurka V. V., Mushinskiy V. G.. On the fauna of Lepidoptera (Insecta) of the national nature park ‘Dvorichanskyi’ (Kharkiv region, Ukraine) and its environs. Contribution 2. The Kharkov Entomol. Soc. Gaz. 2018. Vol. XXVI, iss. 1. P. 55–114; 4) Будашкин Ю. И. Материалы по фауне Чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Казантипского природного заповедника. Труды Никитского ботанического сада – Национального научного центра. 2006. Том 126. С. 263-290. 5) Ключко, З. Ф.Аннотированный каталог совок (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) фауны Украины : монография / З. Ф. Ключко, И. Г. Плющ, П. Н. Шешурак. - Киев : Институт зоологии НАН Украины, 2001. - 880 с. 6) https://lepidoptera.crimea.ua/index.htm 7) https://alsphotopage.com/ The data from open-access internet resource (https://lepidoptera.crimea.ua/index.htm) about butterflies of Crimea was also used.

Study Extent The dataset was created after excluding data from already published literature resources and internet open-access resource.
Quality Control The authors are fully responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset.

Method step description:

  1. Examining of the information provided within the resource.
  2. Organizing of the dataset according to Darwin Core requirements.
  3. Georeferencing.
  4. Organising of the dataset according to Darwin Core standards.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Zlatkov B., Budashkin Yu. Taxonomic and distributional remarks on some Palaearctic Cydia of the succedana-group with descriptions of two new species (Tortricidae). Nota lepi. 35 (1): 97 – 107.
  2. Будашкин Ю. И. Материалы по фауне Чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Казантипского природного заповедника. Труды Никитского ботанического сада – Национального научного центра. 2006. Том 126. С. 263-290.
  3. Karolinskiy Ye. A., Demyanenko S. A., Guglya Yu. A., Zhakov A. V., Kavurka V. V., Mushinskiy V. G.. On the fauna of Lepidoptera (Insecta) of the national nature park ‘Dvorichanskyi’ (Kharkiv region, Ukraine) and its environs. Contribution 2. The Kharkov Entomol. Soc. Gaz. 2018. Vol. XXVI, iss. 1. P. 55–114.
  4. Савчук В. В., Кайгородова Н. С. Новые сведения по фауне и биологии чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) Крыма. Часть II. Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень. 2020. 16(2): 255–264.
  5. Ключко, З. Ф.Аннотированный каталог совок (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) фауны Украины : монография / З. Ф. Ключко, И. Г. Плющ, П. Н. Шешурак. - Киев : Институт зоологии НАН Украины, 2001. - 880 с.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 2ccf651c-2974-4ac5-807c-dd43cb7de973
https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=lepidopterastep1