Pu Mat National Park is the flagship park on the northern massif of the Truong Son Mountains along, rich biodiversity, very important park of Vietnam where butterfly fauna, especially mountain butterfly fauna have not been studied much. The aim of the study is to inventory species and their conservation priority of mountain forest of Pu Mat National Park. | HỘI NGHỊ KHOA HỌC TOÀN QUỐC VỀ SINH THÁI VÀ TÀI NGUYÊN SINH VẬT LẦN THỨ 6 BUTTERFLY SPECIES LIST (LEPIDOPTERA: RHOPOLOCERA) OF NATURAL FOREST ON MOUTAIN OF PU MAT NATIONAL PARK, NGHE AN PROVINCE VU VAN LIEN Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Pu Mat National Park (NP) was founded in 2001 with it‟s area of about 94,800ha. The Park is located in the middle of the Annamite, in Anh Son, Con Cuong and Tuong Duong districts, Nghe An Province. The park is considered as Viet Nam‟s great museum of animal gene pool. The climate is tropical monsoon; average annual rainfall is and the average temperature 23,5°C. The highest peak is Pu Mat (1,841m). Vietnam butterfly fauna was studied from the early twentieth century. Recently, there are more studies on butterflies carried out in the National Parks and Nature Reserves of Vietnam [3, 6, 7, 10, 11]. There are less studies on butterflies of Pu Mat NP, Hill & Monastyrskii (1999) reported total 96 species of the park [6]. So far, more than 1,000 butterfly species are recorded in Vietnam. Pu Mat National Park is the flagship park on the northern massif of the Truong Son Mountains along, rich biodiversity, very important park of Vietnam where butterfly fauna, especially mountain butterfly fauna have not been studied much. The aim of the study is to inventory species and their conservation priority of mountain forest of Pu Mat National Park. I. MATERIAL AND METHODS 1. Research site Research was carried out in a mountain natural forests of Pu Mat National Park in May and September 2008. The altitude of the study area is 800 m to 1,600 m . 2. Methods Most butterfly specimens were collected by insect nets, the species that could not collected were observed and recorded only. Additionally, the presence and relative abundance of butterflies were also observed and recorded to assess the presence and abundance of butterflies in the area. Nomenclature and identification of butterfly .
