Resumen

LUNA-REYES, Mercedes; LUIS-MARTINEZ, Armando; VARGAS-FERNANDEZ, Isabel  y  LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS, Jorge. Butterflies of the state of Morelos, Mexico (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Rev. Mex. Biodiv. [online]. 2012, vol.83, n.3, pp.623-666. ISSN 2007-8706.  https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.27987.

We set the information available for a comprehensive list of the state of Morelos Rhopalocera: 331 taxa specific level, contained in 154 genera, 18 subfamilies and 5 families from 29 981 lepidopterists specimens from Mexican and foreign collections contained in the megabase MARIPOSA, it is specialized in wildlife inventories. Based on this, we performed a historical sketch of collecting and collectors, highlighting the work in the state since the sixteenth century. We compared the richness with contiguous states, we found a greater similarity with the state of Guerrero, with more than 90%. We found that Cuernavaca is the town with more diversity, as it contains more than half of the species in the state, 21 sites have been successfully collected, they represented in 95% of the Papilionoidea. Municipalities best studied were Tepoztlan, Tlaquiltenango and Huitzilac. Morelos is highlighted by the percentage of taxa endemic to Mexico it represents one third of the total species endemic for the country.

Palabras llave : systematic collections; fauna; distribution; Guerrero; Puebla; Distrito Federal; endemism; deciduous forest.