Insect Diversity of the Muni-Pomadze Ramsar Site: An Important Site for Biodiversity Conservation in Ghana

Table 1

Butterfly species recorded over the entire survey period.

Species	Yenku Block A			Yenku Block B
	July	January	June	July	January	June
Euryphene barombyna	2	2	1	0	0	1
Euryphene sp.	1	1	0	0	0	0
Euphaedra sarcoptera	12	2	4	0	0	0
Euphaedra edwardsi	2	1	0	0	0	0
Euphedra hapalyce	5	1	2	0	0	0
Euphaedra eleus	2	1	0	0	0	0
Euphaedra medon	9	2	3	0	0	0
Euphaedra crockeri	4	1	2	0	0	0
Euphaedra xypete	14	1	4	0	0	0
Euphaedra sp.	3	0	2	0	0	0
Eurytela dryope	12	3	23	0	0	0
Pseudoacrea sp.	9	2	4	55	0	1
Pseudoneptis ianthe	3	0	2	0	0	0
Pseudoneptis sp.	1	0	1	0	0	0
Diestogina feronia	2	1	1	0	0	0
Neptis melicerta	3	6	3	3	0	14
Neptis agatha	1	3	5	10	0	4
Neptis metella	2	2	9	2	0	3
Neptis merosa	1	1	3	1	0	0
Neptis seeldrayersi	0	0	2	0	0	0
Salamis anacardii	3	1	1	0	0	0
Junonia terea	43	3	27	2	0	6
Junonia oenone	1	1	2	6	5	60
Junonia octavia	0	11	2	0	0	10
Junonia sp.	2	1	2	1	1	0
Gnophodes chelys	3	3	5	0	0	0
Gnophodes betsimena	0	2	1	0	0	0
Kallima rumia	2	1	3	0	0	0
Phalanta phalanta	13	6	29	75	3	66
Ariadne enotera	8	1	14	0	0	1
Aterica galene	2	1	1	0	0	0
Aterica sp.	7	0	1	0	0	0
Byblia achelola	2	4	2	0	0	0
Byblia sp.	1	1	3	0	0	0
Hypolimnas salmacis	2	2	1	0	1	0
Hypolimnas missipus	1	1	2	0	0	0
Hypolimnas dinarcha	1	2	0	0	0	0
Acraea epaea	2	3	5	7	6	13
Acraea zetes	4	5	8	37	13	65
Acraea terpsichore	0	4	7	0	0	24
Acraea pseudolycia	0	0	1	0	0	0
Acraea doubledayi	0	0	2	0	0	0
Acraea egina	1	0	3	0	0	0
Acraea sp.	1	2	4	16	4	11
Bematistis epaea	4	5	6	0	2	14
Hallelesis haliwa	2	1	0	1	0	0
Hallelesis sp.	4	1	1	0	0	0
Ypthima itonia	0	1	3	0	0	0
Bicyclus zinebi	11	3	3	1	0	0
Bicyclus safitza	13	2	5	2	0	3
Bicyclus auricruda	0	1	3	0	0	0
Mycalensis safitza	1	1	5	0	0	1
Mycalensis sp.	5	0	1	6	0	0
Bicyclus vansoni	0	2	0	0	0	0
Bicyclus condamini	0	1	1	0	0	0
Bicyclus vulgaris	0	1	0	0	0	0
Papilio demodocus	18	8	21	112	11	66
Papilio dardaunus	3	5	2	0	1	0
Papilio nireus	23	4	29	0	0	0
Papilio bromius	3	1	2	0	0	0
Graphium policenes	2	4	3	1	0	1
Papilio menesthius	1	2	1	0	0	2
Amauris niavus	3	2	5	1	0	0
Amauris egialea	2	1	3	1	0	0
Amauris sp.	1	1	2	1	0	0
Danaus chryssipus	2	125	8	13	24	7
Danaus limniace	0	1	2	0	0	0
Eurema brigitta	17	8	9	206	5	40
Eurema senegalensis	9	2	3	16	2	11
Eurema hecabe	6	13	8	3	1	11
Eurema lisa	11	3	4	7	1	0
Eurema brenda	0	0	1	0	0	0
Eurema sp.	13	2	5	4	0	0
Colias philodice	4	2	1	0	0	0
Pieris rapae	3	4	6	0	2	26
Pieris sp.	4	2	3	1	1	10
Nepheronia thalassina	18	15	21	2	3	29
Nepheronia argia	22	8	18	0	3	35
Nepheronia sp.	5	3	6	0	0	0
Leptosia alcesta	21	8	33	0	0	0
Leptosia medusa	18	10	22	0	0	0
Leptosia sp.	8	3	5	0	0	0
Appias phaola	0	1	3	0	0	0
Dixeia astarte	1	0	8	3	1	0
Dixeia cebon	8	3	23	4	2	3
Colotis erone	9	4	22	7	25	13
Colotis danae	7	2	3	5	8	3
Colotis evippe	12	8	14	11	5	7
Colotis antevippe	18	2	24	20	3	85
Colotis evinina	6	3	9	9	3	62
Colotis eunoma	4	0	5	3	2	5
Anthocharis cardamine	4	4	6	3	0	3
Belinois calypso	68	15	87	12	8	66
Belinois creona	32	5	46	9	1	20
Belinois theora	16	1	19	12	0	14
Belinois gidica	18	4	7	14	0	2
Belinois aurota	14	3	12	21	0	9
Belinois theuszi	9	8	10	7	1	0
Belinois hedyle	0	0	3	0	0	0
Catopsilla florella	78	29	31	21	21	69
Catopsilla sp.	42	7	16	5	9	16
Euronia cleodora	0	0	1	0	0	0
Mylothris chloris	56	71	34	23	1	8
Mylothris poppea	34	9	27	5	1	19
Mylothris sp.	51	12	10	4	0	6
Mylothris rhodope	17	8	11	2	0	26
Charaxes varanes	9	2	1	4	0	2
Charaxes protocrea	2	1	1	0	0	0
Charaxes etheocles	0	1	1	0	0	0
Charaxes brutus	0	0	2	0	1	0
Charaxes tiridates	5	1	3	0	0	0
Charaxes cynthia	3	2	4	1	0	0
Charaxes zelica	2	1	3	0	0	0
Euxanthe eurinome	1	0	2	0	0	0
Castalius carana	3	2	1	3	5	12
Lycaena helloides	2	5	3	5	27	0
Lycaena sp.	6	2	1	5	8	0
Meza indusiata	0	3	1	0	8	0
Euchrysops albistriata	5	8	11	3	39	25
Osmodes adon	0	1	0	0	0	0
Spalgis lemolea	0	1	1	0	0	0
Poecilmitis chrysaor	0	0	1	0	0	0
Anthene sp.	0	0	1	0	0	0
Pyrrhiades lucagus	61	103	76	7	0	51
Amblyscirtis vialis	3	2	3	0	1	0
Lerodea sp.	4	3	2	1	0	0
Hesperia leonardus	2	1	4	0	0	2
Hesperia sp.	3	2	1	2	0	1
Oeneis polixenes	2	3	6	1	0	0
Coliades chalyba	0	0	3	0	0	0