Diversity of diurnal butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) associated with a shade coffee agroecosystem (Curití, Santander).

Shade grown coffee crops generate environments more similar to mountain ecosystems than monocultures of coffee exposed to direct sunlight. Although butterflies are considered useful bioindicators of the state of ecosystem health, their diversity remains unknown in coffee agroecosystems in Santander,...