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Clipper (Parthenos sylvia), a nymphalid butterfly found in India. Great eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina), a nymphalid butterfly found at Visakhapatnam, India. This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself forms part of the complete List of butterflies of India. A total of 177 species belonging to 22 genera are found in India.
The following is a list of the butterflies of India. India has extremely diverse terrain , climate and vegetation , which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, islands and continental areas, widely varying flora, and sharply marked seasons. [ 1 ]
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea , they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies.
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Danainae of the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself is part of the complete List of butterflies of India. A total of 26 species belonging to six genera are found in India.
Two subspecies are recorded in India: [1] H. m. marathus Doubleday Wingspan 70–90 mm. Above bands tawny, very wide and confluent. It lives from Sikkim to eastwards. H. m. angustata Moore. Above bands tawny, narrow. Discal bands on hindwing and outer band on forewing macular. Bands in males whitish while in female white. It lives in the Andamans.
Idea malabarica, the Malabar tree nymph, [2] is a large butterfly found in peninsular India. [ 2 ] that belongs to the danaid group of the family Nymphalidae . [ 3 ] It is found in forest clearings and above the forest canopy.
Euploea klugii, the brown king crow or king crow, [1] is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae found in India [1] and Southeast Asia. The species was first described by the entomologist Frederic Moore in 1858. [2]