Butterflies (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Fauna of Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh, India

The Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh was surveyed from April 2019 to March, 2022 to record the butterfly diversity. Total 209 species referable to 127 genera under six families i.e., Nymphalidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae, Lycaenidae, Riodinidae and Hesperiidae were recorded from Papum Pare district. The family Nymphalidae was with maximum number of species i.e., 85 species under 42 genera (40%), followed by Lycaenidae, 49 species under 38 genera (23%), Hesperiidae, 36 species under 27 genera (17%), Pieridae, 20 species under 12 genera (10%), Papilionidae, 18 species under 7 genera) (9%), and Riodinidae, 1 species under 1 genus (1%). The diversity revealed that of these 209 species, 60 species (29%), were common, 84 species (40%) uncommon and remaining 65 species (31%) less common. Out of 209 species, 37 species are in the Wildlife (Protection) Amendmant Act, 2022.