https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e97682 (21 Dec 2022)
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Information on the distribution of species and subspecies at island level in the Azores Archipelago is presented using the following abbreviations: ABPCODE: Code of the taxon in AZORESBIOPORTAL; COR - Corvo Island; FLO - Flores Island; FAI - Faial Island; PIC - Pico Island; GRA - Graciosa Island; SJG - São Jorge Island; TER - Terceira Island; SMG - São Miguel Island; and SMR - Santa Maria Island. When no information concerning island occurrence was available, only archipelago occurrence is given (AZ). In most cases, this corresponds to old records, as well as to references to the Azores, as found in “Fauna Europaea”, with no connection to any literature supporting these findings. Abbreviations of the colonisation status of each species presented in the checklist are as follows: END – Azorean endemics, i.e. species or subspecies occurring only in the Azores, as a result of either speciation events (neo-endemics) or extinction of the mainland populations (palaeo-endemics); MAC – Macaronesian endemic species, i.e. species only known from Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira, Canaries and Cabo Verde Islands); NAT – native non-endemic species, i.e. species which arrived by long-distance dispersal in the Azores and which also occur in other archipelagos and/or on continents; M – migrant species, i.e. butterflies, moths and dragonflies which arrived to the Azores by long-distance dispersal, such as migratory flights, periodically (seasonal migrants) or occasionally (non-seasonal migrants); some of them establish breeding populations (e.g. Monarch butterfly); INTR – introduced species, i.e. species believed to occur in the Archipelago as a result of human activities; some of these species have a worldwide distribution; INDT – indeterminate, i.e. species for which no information is available to decide on the correct colonisation status.