2002, the two champions of the leagues play a 2nd Bundesliga championship final which also determines the clubs promoted to the Bundesliga. 

The bottom clubs in the league are relegated to the Rugby-Regionalliga, the third tier of rugby in Germany. The top-teams of the Regionalliga are promoted in turn.

The four groups cover the following states in 2017:

In the 2008-09 season, only nine of the sixteen German states have clubs at this level. Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia and Saarland have no 2nd Bundesliga club.

With the RC Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg, a non-German side competes in the league. The inclusion of this side in the 2009 promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga caused some debate in regards to its legality, as the club had not qualified throughList of Lepidoptera of Malta

The Lepidoptera of Malta consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the island of Malta.

Butterflies

Hesperiidae
Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Lycaenidae
Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761)
Lysandra bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
Plebejus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

Nymphalidae
Aglais io (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Boloria dia (Linnaeus, 1767)
Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hipparchia blachieri (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
Lasiommata maera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)
Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1778)
Nymphalis polychloros (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pararge aegeria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775)
Pyronia tithonus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Papilionidae
Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Iphiclides podalirius podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Papilio machaon Linnaeus, 1758

Pieridae
Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Colias croceus (Fourcroy, 1785)
Colias hyale (Linnaeus,