Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

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The present communication represents updated list of 126 species of butterflies under 85 genera belonging to 06 families from the Indian Sundarbans. During present survey, 30 species have been recorded, of which, a butterfly species, Discophora sondaica Boisduval, 1836 (Family Nymphalidae) has been reported for the first time from the mangrove ecosystem of this region. The family Lycaenidae represents 38 species followed by families Nymphalidae, Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae and Riodinidae with 37 species, 26 species, 14 species, 10 species and 01 species respectively.

Keywords

Mangrove Ecosystem, New Record, Protected Butterfly, Sundarbans.
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