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So far about1501 butterfly species have been recorded from India 350 species are from Peninsular India 331 species from the Western Ghats. Worldwide there are more than 28000 species of butterflies with about 80 percent found in tropical regions.
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Information about the diversity of butterflies. The species diversity was determined by using diversity index Shannon-Wiener. The study identified 4 families 44 species and 748 individual butterflies. Nymphalidae was a family predominantly found 7112 while the species mostly found was Ideopsis juventa tontoliensis 1016.
A STUDY ON THE DIVERSITY OF BUTTERFLIES Frias Abigail Pauline F. PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND. Lepidos is greek for scales and ptera means wings.
The study generally aims to identify the diversity of butterflies. The group is particularly diverse in the Neotropics with approximately 1200 species in 137 genera Lamas et al. 2004 occurring in all habitats with vegetation from sea level to the highlands.
Due to their bright colors and visits to flowers butterflies are the most familiar of insects to humans. There are about 17500 species of butterflies in the world and around 750 species in the United States. Butterflies are one of the most attractive insects in the world which have received a reasonable amount of attention throughout the world.
Our result shows that butterflies of Howrah district West. Western Ghats is considered as one of the most diversified areas containing a wide variety of species of butterflies. So far about1501 butterfly species have been recorded from India 350 species are from Peninsular India 331 species from the Western Ghats.
Butterflies which are believed to have existed before man are duirnal group of insects of order lepidoptera under the phylum anthropoda which comprises of about 16500 species. Peru has over 3700 butterfly species - more than any other country and equal to about 20 of the world total. The butterflies of Peru however are still vastly under-recorded and it is estimated that as many as 4200 will eventually be discovered.
Butterflies show different functional and species diversity in relationship to vegetation structure and land use 1 INTRODUCTION. It is well known that biodiversity is rapidly disappearing at local and global scales and that this is. In common with many other insects adult butterflies have antennae compound eyes three pairs of legs a hard exoskeleton and a body that is divided into three parts.
The head thorax and the abdomen. Uniquely a butterflys outer body is covered by tiny sensory hairs and the wings are covered by scales. Observations on the butterfly diversity provide information about the variations in the species richness and the abundance shaped by the vegetation along the landscape Harrington and Stork 1995 Öckinger and Smith 2006 Öckinger et al 2006 Öckinger et.
Butterflies are generally regarded as one of the best taxonomically studied group of insects. Worldwide there are more than 28000 species of butterflies with about 80 percent found in tropical regions. The Indian subcontinent bearing a diverse terrain climate and vegetation hosts about 1504 species of butterflies 2.
Butterflies enable sustenance of ecosystem services through. Beta diversity of plants birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure - Zellweger - 2017 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library. By comparing the genetic diversity of butterflies in North America researchers reporting in the journal iScience on March 23 found that the array of different evolutionary distinct groups of.