Amazon rain forest © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Cerrado © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Chiquitania dry forest © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Yungas cloud forest © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Pre-puna habitat © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Puna © Yuvinka Gareca & Steffen Reichle

Puddling Papilionidae, Pieridae and Nymphalidae

Project participants and Lepidoptera researchers in Bolivia
Collaborators with the Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project are marked with an *. If you would like to collaborate or be listed on this page please contact Keith Willmott (kwillmott@flmnh.ufl.edu).

Museo de Historia Natural, Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz *
Julieta Ledezma, Jose Aramayo
Lead institution for Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project in Bolivia, responsible for managing the databasing of local collections and assisting with organisation of student courses.

Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz *
Fernando Guerra
Assistance in student courses and collections databasing.

Centro de Biodiversidad y Genética, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba *
Susana Arrázola Rivero
Assistance in student courses and collections databasing.

Museo de Historia Natural Alcides d'Orbigny, Cochabamba *
Marcelo Aliaga, Ariel Céspedes, Yuvinka Gareca
Assistance in student courses and collections databasing.

Areas Bolivianas Importantes para la Biodiversidad *
Yuvinka Gareca, Aidan Maccormick, Ross McLeod
Inventory of butterflies from various areas of Bolivia (now finished)

Butterflies of Sacha Loma - Mizque *
Lenny Paz-Soldan
Inventory of butterflies of this area. These data will be published soon in a guide to the butterflies of Parque Nacional Tunari (details below).

Butterflies of five zones of the Parque Nacional Tunari *
Carlos Pinto
Inventory of butterflies of this area. These data will be published soon in a guide to the butterflies of Parque Nacional Tunari (details below).

Butterflies of San Miguel, Parque Nacional Tunari *
Roxana Quinteros
Inventory of butterflies of this area. These data will be published soon in a guide to the butterflies of Parque Nacional Tunari (details below).

Use of Lepidoptera as Bioindicators *
Martin Antonio Apaza Ticona
A study of how Lepidoptera can be used as indicators of the degree of habitat disturbance, in collaboration with CI - Bolivia, IDR - UMSA and Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado. A summary of the project is available (in Spanish) here, and the data will soon be available through the Darwin Database of Andean Butterflies at this site. Available documents include: report (5MB), appendices (6.4MB), presentation (3.3MB), scientific article (0.6MB).

Publications on butterflies of Bolivia

Gareca, Y. Lista Preliminar de especies de mariposas diurnas de Alarachi (in press).

Gareca, Y. Guía de especies de mariposas diurnas de valle de Tucavaca (in press).

Gareca, Y., Reichle, S., Rumiz, D. 2007. Variación Estacional de Mariposas Diurnas en la Reserva Municipal Valle de Tucavaca. Rev. Bol. Ecol. 20: 19-41.

2006. Apaza T., M. A., Osorio, F., Pastrana, A. Evaluation of the degree of threat to habitat using bioindicators (Lepidoptera) in two communities within the area of influence of the Parque Nacional Anmi Madidi. Revista Ciencia y Tecnología Agropecuaria, 1(1): . download article.

2006. Gareca, Y., Forno, E., Pyrcz, T., Willmott, K., Reichle, S. Lista preliminar de mariposas diurnas de Bolivia. In: Mariposas Diurnas de Bolivia: Lista Preliminar de Mariposas de Bolivia y Algunas Especies de Mariposas Típicas y Llamativas de Bolivia (Y. Gareca and S. Reichle eds.). PROMETA, Tarija, Bolivia.

2006. Quinteros, R., L.A. Paz Soldan, C.F. Pinto & L.F. Aguirre. Guía de Mariposas del Parque Nacional Tunari. Centro de Biodiversidad y Genética, UMSS. Cochabamba, Bolivia. 132 pp.

2006. Quinteros, R., L.A. Paz Soldan, C.F. Pinto, L.F. Aguirre, O. Ruiz & D.C. Tacachiri. Influencia de actividades antropogénicas sobre comunidades de mariposas en Bosques de Polylepis besseri, Cochabamba-Bolivia. Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental 20: 43-64.

Other links relating to butterflies of Bolivia

Checklist of the butterflies of Bolivia Click on: Fauna > Insectos > Mariposas > Lista de especies