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This study was implemented under the LIFE Natura@night project \u2013 Mitigating light pollution in Macaronesia (LIFE20 NAT\/PT\/001098; https:\/\/www.naturaatnight.spea.pt), which aims to assess and mitigate the impacts of artificial light at night on biodiversity and ecosystems across the Macaronesian archipelagos, while supporting evidence-based conservation and management actions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This dataset presents terrestrial arthropod occurrences collected across Natura 2000 protected areas of Madeira Island during two field campaigns conducted in late summer 2022 and spring 2023. Heath UV light traps were complemented with wine-rope bait traps to maximise the detection of nocturnal arthropods. The dataset comprises 1,939 occurrence records (including 35 absence records), documenting 11,885 individuals belonging to 200 taxa (species and subspecies) from 16 terrestrial arthropod groups and is dominated by Lepidoptera (76.2% of all records). Of the 179 lepidopteran taxa recorded, 63 (35.2%) are endemic to Madeira, 68 (38.0%) are native non-endemic taxa, 38 (21.2%) are introduced and 10 (5.6%) are migratory, highlighting the exceptional conservation value of the surveyed Natura 2000 sites.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Several endemic lepidopteran taxa of particular conservation interest were recorded, including\n                    <jats:italic>Blastobasis bassii<\/jats:italic>\n                    Karsholt &amp; Sinev, 2004;\n                    <jats:italic>Blastobasis laurisilvae<\/jats:italic>\n                    Karsholt &amp; Sinev, 2004;\n                    <jats:italic>Blastobasis wollastoni<\/jats:italic>\n                    Karsholt &amp; Sinev, 2004;\n                    <jats:italic>Blepharita inexspectata<\/jats:italic>\n                    Weidlich, 2001;\n                    <jats:italic>Herbulotina maderae<\/jats:italic>\n                    Pinker, 1971;\n                    <jats:italic>Mythimna serradaguae<\/jats:italic>\n                    Wolff, 1977;\n                    <jats:italic>Noctua teixeirai<\/jats:italic>\n                    Pinker, 1971;\n                    <jats:italic>Xenochlorodes magna<\/jats:italic>\n                    Wolff, 1977; and\n                    <jats:italic>Zelleria wolffi<\/jats:italic>\n                    Klimesch, 1983, many of which are characterised by restricted distributions and were sampled in small numbers. Additional rare endemic species included\n                    <jats:italic>Agrotis atrux<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Pinker, 1971);\n                    <jats:italic>Carposina anopta<\/jats:italic>\n                    Diakonoff, 1988;\n                    <jats:italic>Eupithecia latipennata<\/jats:italic>\n                    Prout, 1914; and\n                    <jats:italic>Eupithecia rosai<\/jats:italic>\n                    Pinker, 1962.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    The survey provided new insights into the arthropod fauna of Madeira, including two potential new records for the Archipelago [\n                    <jats:italic>Blastesthia tessulatana<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Staudinger, 1871) and\n                    <jats:italic>Heterotoma planicornis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Pallas, 1772)], a possible first confirmed record (\n                    <jats:italic>Eudonia mercurella<\/jats:italic>\n                    Linnaeus, 1758) and the re-confirmation of a previously doubtful taxon (\n                    <jats:italic>Blastobasis phycidella<\/jats:italic>\n                    Zeller, 1839). These findings emphasise the value of continued biodiversity monitoring in improving knowledge of Madeira's terrestrial arthropod diversity. The dataset also documents the occurrence of\n                    <jats:italic>Hipparchia maderensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    Baker, 1891, the only diurnal butterfly recorded during the survey.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/bdj.14.e209141","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T05:32:11Z","timestamp":1791351131000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Nocturnal arthropod occurrences across Natura 2000 protected areas of Madeira Island (Portugal)"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Elisa","family":"Teixeira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias Agr\u00e1rias e Ambiente, Universidade dos A\u00e7ores, Mestrado em Gest\u00e3o e Conserva\u00e7\u00e3o da Natureza, Terceira, Portugal"},{"name":"SPEA BirdLife \u2013 Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Funchal, 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