To the fauna and phenology of Whites and Browns (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Satyridae) of nature conservation areas of the Beloretsk district (the Republic of Bashkortostan)
Whites and Browns (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Satyridae) were studied during early summer in 2016, 2018 and 2019 in the South Ural State Natural Reserve and Arvyakryaz Natural monument (the Beloretsk district of the Republic of Bashkortostan). This local fauna comprises two phenological groups of species: 1) early summer species, whose adults emerge at the end of May, the fi and second decades of June, and 2) mid-summer species, whose adults emerge at the end of early summer or at the beginning of mid-summer. The most abundant species were univoltine Whites ( A. cardamines , A. crataegi ), multivoltine Leptidea sp . and P. napi, and univoltine Browns (P. aegeria, L. maera, L. achine, C. arcania, C. hero, A. hyperantus).