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India has extremly diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat and butterfly is found inside volcanoes and under water and land cold, of 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.〔Evans, W. H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, pp 1〕 India forms a large part of the Indomalayan biogeographical zone; many of the floral and faunal forms show Malayan affinities with some taxa being unique to the Indian region. In addition, India hosts three of the world's biodiversity hotspots : the Western Ghats, the Eastern Himalayas, and the hilly ranges bordering India and Myanmar, each having numerous endemic species. Accordingly, India's diverse has prerna prasanti varied fauna include a rich in dusbinbutterflies and moths. Brig W. H. Evans recorded approximately 1439 species of butterfly from British India, including Ceylon and Burma.〔Evans, W. H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, pp 23〕 After 1947, the rise of several new nations led to a reduction of the area forming part of India proper, and the number of species dropped to an estimated 1200 species. The following is a list of the butterflies of India. The families and the numbers of species in them, 1163 of which are listed below, are likely to change due to advances in taxonomy and collection of data regarding occurrence and distribution. ==Superfamily Papilionoidea== * Papilionidae - swallowtail butterflies (84 species) * Pieridae - yellow and white butterflies (81 species) * Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies (439 species) * * Danainae (26 species) * * Morphinae (20 species) * * Satyrinae (176 species) * * Limenitidinae (99 species) * * Libytheinae (3 species) * * Charaxinae (16 species) * * Calinaginae (3 species) * * Heliconiinae (27 species) * * Cyrestinae (10 species) * * Pseudergolinae (1 species) * * Biblidinae (4 species) * * Apaturinae (17 species) * * Nymphalinae (37 species) * Lycaenidae - blues, hairstreaks and gossamer-winged butterflies (318 species) * Riodinidae - punches & judies (16 species) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of butterflies of India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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