Acknowledgements

Butterflies of Cyprus by Eddie John F.R.E.S.

A Guide to the Butterflies of Cyprus

and Butterfly Recording Scheme

In association with Christodoulos Makris & Rob Parker

Butterflies of Cyprus - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO RECORDERS

We are grateful to the following for their contributions to the Butterfly Recording Scheme for Cyprus:

An excursion through the Machairas Forest
(1400 m) in my ‘V’ (visitor) registered Mitsubishi Pajero, 1998. Summer-roosting Cyprus Grayling (Hipparchia cypriensis) were plentiful among the trees.
© Eddie John

Christodoulos Makris (Cyprus) and Dubi Benyamini (Israel), examining a specimen of the Cyprus endemic, Glaucopsyche paphos, Troodos Mountains, June 2003. © Eddie John

Acamas Nature Trail, June 2003. A venerable specimen of the Eastern Strawberry Tree (Arbutus andrachne) - the larval foodplant of the Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius) - which is conveniently identified!
© Eddie John

Residents:

Giannakis Antoniou
Aristos Aristophanous
Kevin Austin
Pambos Christodoulou
Yiannis Christofides
Nigel Cottle
Judy Dawes
Andreas Demetropoulos Dorinda Drury
Dave Duke (resident to 2006)
Karen and Peter Flint,
(residents to 2004)

Visitors:

Guy Arien
Karl Bailey
Ted Benton
Dubi Benyamini
Paul Brock
Geoff Cave
Simon Coombes
Terry Coult
John Coutsis
Andrew Cunningham
Mike Dawson
Steve Day
Philip Daykin
Johan Debuck
R. C. Dening
Erik van Dijk
Steve Eckersley
Nico Elfferich
Bernard Fransen
Bob & Darren Frost
Brian Garner
Martin Gascoigne-Pees
Graham Gavaghan
Graham Giles
Régy Goemaere
Valérie Goethals
Keith Grant
Daniel & Hilary Haines
David Hall
Andy Harding
Eddie Harding
Roger Harding
Mike Hardman
Les Hatton
Keith Heaven
John Hemmings
Bill Hipkiss
Ralph Hobbs
Donna Hollinger
Allen Holmes
Chris Holt
Hilary Humphrey
John Hyatt
Jacek Kazimierczak
John Kinsey
Ahmet Koçak
Tom Nygaard Kristensen
Otakar Kudrna

(Names shown in blue indicate new records or contributors in 2007/2008.)

All have complemented additional records compiled by:

Rob Parker (resident, Episkopi 1973 – 1975)
Visitor - July 1998
Visitor - March/April 2006

Christodoulos Makris (resident, Lemesos)

Eddie John (resident, Mosphiloti 1997 – 1998)
Visitor - September/October 2000
Visitor - June 2001
Visitor - April 2002
Visitor - May/June 2003
Visitor - June/July 2006
Visitor - May 2007
Visitor - October 2007

Records from northern Cyprus remain a comparative rarity, so those provided by Judy Dawes, Dave Duke, Peter and Karen Flint, Daniel & Hilary Haines, Ken Hearne, Tony Hutchinson, Ozge Ozden and David Whaley, among others, have added much to the distribution maps previously published. Further records from the north and from the eastern area of Cyprus will be especially welcomed, please.

Visitors (Cont.):
Antoni Kwiczala
Jani Laasensen
Anthony & Chris Lamsdell
Judith Layzell
Ronny Leestmans
Ivan Leroy
Stefan Lewandowski
Alison McArthur
Kris Mercer
Xavier Merit
Benoît Méry
Paul Millard
Tony Mills
Jon Millo
Gerhard Müller
Ken Namba
Ken Noble
Laurie Oakes
Alain Olivier
Simon Plat
Chris Raper
Matthew Rowlings
Peter Rowlings
Peter Russell
Michael Schmitz
Dietmar Schuphan
Klaus Schurian
Alan Showler
Lars Skipper
Bjarne Skule
Sarah Stille
Tom Tams
David Taylor
John Tennent
Paul Threapleton
David Tomlinson
Vic Tucker
Bart Vanholder
Roland Vannieuwenhuyze
Esko Viitanen
Frank Walsh
Jef van de Water
David Webb
Brian Weeks
Steven Whitnall
Sven Wiessner
Phil Wilkins
Jason Wilson
Rupert Witherow

Residents (Cont.):
Gabriel Georgiou
Miles Harkin
Ken Hearne
Tony Hutchinson
Karen McLeod
Christodoulos Makris
Pavlos Neofytou
Ozge Ozden
Theodoulos Poullis
Lyndon Thomas (resident to 2002)
David Whaley
Roger White

I am also grateful to the following for allowing use of their photographs, as acknowledged below their respective image(s):

Dubi Benyamini
Yiannis Christofides
Bernard Fransen
Martin Gascoigne-Pees
Hilary Haines
Christodoulos Makris
Alison McArthur
Simon Plat