Scientists have discovered four species of butterflies new to Russia on Kunashir Island; it was previously believed that they lived in Japan and Southeast Asia, Vitaly Spitsyn, senior researcher at the Central Museum of Biological Diversity of the Federal Center for General Research on the Arctic named after Academician NP Laverov of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FITSCIA), told .
© 2025 Auckland Scoop