Bibliography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON CYPRUS BUTTERFLIES BY EDDIE JOHN (as sole or principal author):

John, E. 2000. Butterflies of Cyprus 1998 (Records of a year’s sightings). Bull. amat. Ent. Soc., Pamphlet No. 15:46 pp.

John, E. 2001. Autumn Butterfly records from Cyprus, 2000. Bull. amat. Ent. Soc., Vol. 60, No. 436: 84-96.

John, E. 2001. Migration of Vanessa cardui (L.) (Lep.: Nymphalidae) through Cyprus, March 2001. Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var. 113: 269-281.

John, E. 2003: Cyprus. In: van Swaay, C. & Warren, M. (eds): Prime Butterfly Areas in Europe: 150-151. Council of Europe. Wageningen.

John, E. 2004. Butterfly Recording Scheme for Cyprus - a request for records. Entomologist’s Rec. J. var. Vol 116: 262.

John, E. 2005. Cyprus: a brief overview of its Butterflies and an introduction to the island’s Butterfly Recording Scheme. Antenna, Vol 29:33-37.

John, E. 2005. ‘Where to look for Butterflies’, article in MoD’s brochure ‘Searching for Wilderness’, published by the Western Sovereign Base Area, (Akrotiri) Cyprus.

John, E. 2007. Butterflies of Cyprus: an update to the AES booklet (John 2000) with additional comments on endemism and threatened species, plus changes to the island’s butterfly checklist. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society 66, 140-150.

John, E. 2007. Butterfly Recording in Cyprus. Butterfly (The Magazine of Butterfly Conservation, UK) Issue 96, Autumn 2007.

John, E. & Makris, C. 2001. Libythea celtis (Laicharting 1782) (Lepidoptera: Libytheidae): Presence of a Breeding Colony in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Entomologist’s Gazette. 52: 173-180.

John, E. & Parker, R. 2002. Dispersal of Hipparchia cypriensis (Holik, 1949) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyridae) in Cyprus, with notes on its Ecology and Life-history. Entomologist’s Gazette. 53: 3-18.

John, E. & Parker, R. 2003. The Butterfly Year in Cyprus. Sanctuary, Number 32 (Ministry of Defence Conservation Magazine).

John, E., Coutsis, J. G. & Makris, C. 2006.

A review of records for Colias erate (Esper, [1805]) (Lep.: Papilionoidea Pieridae) in Cyprus: were they all yellow forms of Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)? Entomologist’s Gazette. 57: 3-12.

John, E., Cottle, N., McArthur, A. & Makris, C. 2008. Eastern Mediterranean migrations of the Small White Pieris rapae (Linnaeus,1758) (Lepidoptera:Pieridae): observations from Cyprus 2001 and 2007. Entomologist’s Gazette. 59: 71-78.

John, E., Russell, P., Hall, D. & Christofides, Y. 2008. Notes on the life history, ecology and distribution of Pontia chloridice (Hübner, 1808) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), and a first record of Hyposoter ebenitor (Aubert, 1972) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Cyprus. Entomologist’s Gazette. 59: 209-226.

John, E. & Merit, X. 2008. Chilades galba (LEDERER, 1855) and Aporia crataegi (LINNAEUS, 1758): significant contributions to the Cyprus Butterfly Recording Scheme, April / May 2008. Atalanta 39. Band, Heft 1-4: 165-171.

John, E., Gascoigne-Pees, M. & Larsen, T. B. 2009. Ypthima asterope (Klug, 1832) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae): its biogeography, lifecycle, ecology and present status in Cyprus, with additional notes from Rhodes and the eastern Mediterranean. Entomologist's Gazette, Vol 60 (in press).

CO-AUTHORED PAPERS ON CYPRUS-RELATED TOPICS:

Parker, R. & John, E. 2003. Fight behaviour of the Cyprus Grayling, Hipparchia cypriensis in the Troodos Mountains. Bull. amat. Ent. Soc., Vol. 62, No. 446: 27-30.

Wakeham-Dawson, A., Parker, R., John, E. & Dennis, R. L. H. 2003. Comparison of the male genitalia and androconia of Pseudochazara anthelea acamanthis (Rebel, 1916) from Cyprus, Pseudochazara anthelea anthelea (Hübner, [1924]) from mainland Turkey and Pseudochazara anthelea amalthea (Frivaldsky, 1845) from mainland Greece (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Nota lepid. 25 (4), 251-263

IMPORTANT CYPRUS PUBLICATIONS:

Manil, L. 1990. Les Rhopalocères de Chypre. Linneana Belgica XII(8): 313-391.

Makris, C. 2003. Butterflies of Cyprus. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia.

Parker, R. 1983. The Butterflies of Cyprus. Entomologist’s Gazette. 34: 17-53.

Tennent, W. J. 1985. Some Records of Spring Butterflies in Cyprus in 1984. Entomologist’s Gazette. 36:105-109.

A list of other publications relevant to the eastern Mediterranean and countries of the Middle East appears on Page 5.1.

The following extract from a booklet published in 2000 fairly reflected the paucity of literature available at the time. Much has changed in recent years!

“In October 1997 my wife and I moved to the island, where I was to establish a new company from a base at Larnaca. There was little opportunity to carry out a literature search on the butterflies of Cyprus before our departure but we were confident that given the UK’s historical links with the country, there would no difficulty in obtaining reference books locally. We were wrong. A booklet, “Nature of Cyprus”, by Christos Ch. Georgiades, lists 50 of the 51 species of butterfly found on the island but the 14 colour plates are of little assistance in identifying some of the less familiar species present. The majority, but not all, on the Cyprus list are illustrated in “Butterflies of Britain & Europe”, by Tom Tolman and similar UK publications, but such books rarely carry any references to Cyprus. It was with some relief that I learned of Rob Parker’s excellent paper, “The Butterflies of Cyprus”, published in the Entomologist’s Gazette following his three-season stay on the island in the 1970s. This provided a sufficiently clear description of the unfamiliar species to allow identification with confidence. In 1990, a paper by Dr Luc Manil, prepared in collaboration with Rob Parker and others, entitled “Les Rhopalocères de Chypre”, was published in Linneana Belgica. Manil’s paper (in French) updated Parker’s distribution maps with his own and other, more recent, sightings. There are also some very helpful colour and black & white plates, which further help with identification. However, Manil’s paper fails to record numerous sightings by W J Tennent reported in the Entomologist’s Gazette in 1985.”
John, E. 2000. Butterflies of Cyprus 1998 (Records of a year’s sightings). Bull. amat. Ent. Soc., Pamphlet Number 15. 46 pp.