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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">102</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">ARPHA Preprints</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">preprints</abbrev-journal-title>
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        <publisher-name>Pensoft Publishers</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e98740</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">98740</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Taxonomy &amp;amp; Inventories</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="biological_taxon">
          <subject>Animalia</subject>
          <subject>Arthropoda</subject>
          <subject>Invertebrata</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Systematics</subject>
          <subject>Zoology &amp; Animal Biology</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="geographical_area">
          <subject>Europe</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>The biodiversity of the nymphalid family (Insect, Lepidoptera): species collected in Romania’s fauna between 1887–1984</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Stancă-Moise</surname>
            <given-names>Cristina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">cristinamoise1@yahoo.com</email>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Moise</surname>
            <given-names>George</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Brereton</surname>
            <given-names>Tom</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Stanciu</surname>
            <given-names>Mirela</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-376X</uri>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">"Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania</addr-line>
        <institution>"Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sibiu</addr-line>
        <country>Romania</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>Butterfly Conservation</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Wareham, Dorset</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Cristina Stancă-Moise (<email xlink:type="simple">cristinamoise1@yahoo.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>3</volume>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/F3242847-C2FA-5794-AEAD-F468B5CA45AD">F3242847-C2FA-5794-AEAD-F468B5CA45AD</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Cristina Stancă-Moise, George Moise, Tom Brereton, Mirela Stanciu</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>This paper complements the data published thus far about species of the nymphalid family with data collected in Romania’s eight regions between 1887–1984 and elsewhere in Europe (Austria, Croatia, the Republic of Moldova, and Serbia), including the date and the site of original collection. For the first time, this research presents the collecting information of the species held in the entomological collection of the Museum of Natural History in Sibiu. It identifies the species of the nymphalid family in six of the museum’s lepidoptera collections. These collections are of extraordinary interest not least because they are associated with natural scientists of European renown such as Daniel Czekelius, Eugen Worell, Viktor Weindel, Rolf Weirauch, Heinrich Hann von Hannenheim, and Eckbert Schneider. The analysis, cataloguing, centralization, and updating of the nomenclature resulted in a number of 1.865 specimens from 49 species and fifteen genera (of the 90 referenced in Romania’s fauna): <italic>Aglais</italic>,<italic> Apatura, Araschnia</italic>,<italic> Argynnis</italic>,<italic> Brenthis</italic>,<italic> Boloria</italic>,<italic> Euphydryas</italic>,<italic> Inachis</italic>,<italic> Issoria</italic>,<italic> Libythea</italic>,<italic> Limenitis</italic>, <italic>Melitaea</italic>,<italic> Neptis</italic>,<italic> Nymphalis</italic>,<italic> Polygonia.</italic> </p>
        <p>Data published in a previous article adds 101 specimens from the <italic>Vanessa</italic> genus. Most species originate regionally from the 9 counties of Transylvania followed by Oltenia and Moldova (3 counties each), Banat and Dobrogea (2 counties each), Crișana, Satu Mare, and Muntenia (1 county each), and the capital Buchrest. The species presented in this paper also include the extinct taxon <italic>Polygonia egea</italic><italic>,</italic> Eugen Worrell collection and two species that are endemic to Romania: <italic>Melitaea retyezatica</italic>, Daniel Czekelius collection and <italic>Boloria pales caprathomeridionalis</italic>, both Viktor Weindel collection.</p>
      </abstract>
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