The butterfly fauna of Székesfehérvár and the neighbouring plains, Mezőföld has not been wellknown
until now, because only few lepidopterologists and collectors worked in the area and the number of
publications was low. The author has been observing butterflies and recording data since the late 1980s and
together with the data collected by Kálmán Szeőke the number of species ever recorded in Székesfehérvár is
currently 101, of which 43 are protected by the law. The most significant species are the strictly protected
Colias chrysotheme, Maculinea nausithous, which reaches its southeastern area border in Hungary in this area
and the very rare mediterranean vagrant species, Lampides boeticus. The present-day occurrences of
Parnassius mnemosyne, Zerynthia polyxena, Lycaena dispar rutilus, Maculinea teleius and Spialia orbifer are
also worth mentioning
