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In Turkey, this increase in butterfly watchers is of course linked to our high butterfly richness. With this project, the most up to date and extended field guide on Turkey’s butterflies is published. We believe this guide will correspond to a big gap in Turkey. Prepared by Ahmet Baytaş, the field guide is made up of more than 260 pages, gives information about 377 butterfly species. The guide details the Turkish and latin names of butterflies, gives tips about identifying species on the field, their flight period, their habitats, their distribution in Turkey, the plant species the caterpillars feed on, etc. Also other than the very rare, vagrant species, and those which are not possible to identify on the field, the guide includes photographs of all butterfly species taken on the field. For many of the species, photographs showing both the upper and lower wings are presented. But for those which rest holding wings closed, only lower wing photographs are presented. For species where male and female appereances are different, photographs detailing these differences are presented.
For species which have differences among populations or subspecies, again photographs detailing
these differences are presented.
All these details aims at helping
the observers identify butterflies
in nature in an easy and effective
way. The structure, the size and the
presentation of this field guide follows
the internationally accepted standards.
Melitaea telona / Photo: Ahmet Baytaş