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Butterflies Diversity in Gugamal National Park, in the Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra-Central India

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Author	Narasimmarajan, Kannadasan Mahato, Subhasis Parida, Abinash Mathai, Manu Thomas
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Melghat Tiger Reserve is one of the finest dry deciduous and mixed deciduous habitat is situated in southern offshoot of the Satpura mountain province in Maharashtra. A detailed survey of butterflies was conducted between October 2010 and March 2011 in the Gugamal National Park which is core zone of the Tiger Reserve. The objective of the survey was to determine the presence of butterflies in the survey area. A total of 35 line transects were surveyed, each were repeated five times. A total of 66 species of butterflies belonging five families distributed over two super families (Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) were recorded from the respective survey area. The highest number of species were documented in Nymphalidae (31 species) followed by Pieridae (16 species), Papillionidae (8 species), Lycaenidae (7 species) and Hesperidae (4 species) were recorded during the survey period. The observed butterflies were categorized as Common (C) 49.2% (31 species), Rare (R) 41.3 % (26 species) and Very Rare (VR) 9.5 % (6 species). Most of the butterflies were observed near water holes and scrub areas. Out of 66 species, Six species of butterflies namely Pachliopta hector-Linnaeus, Hypolimnasmisippus-Linnaeus, Appisalbina-Boisduval, Euploea core-Gramer, Euchrysopscnejus-Fabricious and Lampidas boelicus-Linnaeus are scheduled species under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972
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Language	English
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Resource Type	Article

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