Haroon1,2, Yu-Feng Meng1, Zahid Khan1, Farzana Perveen2, Muhammad Ather Rafi3, Sayed Waqar Shah4, Xiao-Hong Su1 and Lianxi Xing1,*
...ng study biodiversity of butterflies is explored in Tangi, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A total of 506 specimens collected out of which 252/506 were belonging to family Nymphalidae, 217/506 from family Pieridae, family Papilionidae represented only 37/506 individuals. With their abundance Danauas chrysippus (F130, F314 and D3 24.11), followed by Junonia orytha (F121, F310 and D3 11.86), while Papilio polytes, Junonia hierta<...
Ghulam Ali Bajwa and Muhammad Waseem
...ectively. A total of 101 butterflies and moths species were collected, which belonged to 18 families. Among these, 42 species were new in the Park area. About 70% of the species migrated from lower elevation or from dry temperate forest to moist temperate forest. Margalef Species Distribution Index (3.25) showed greater richness of species during 2011-12 compared to 1960s. Shannon Wiener Maximum Species Evenness Index (2.64) showed greater species evenness in ...
Waheed Iqbal* and Muhammad Faheem Malik
...tal of 1117 specimens of butterflies from 32 species across 22 genera, 11 subfamilies, and four families from this study. With 14 (43.75%) species, the Nymphalidae family was dominated that was followed by the Pieridae family, which had 13 (40.62%) species, the Lycaenidae family, which had three (9.37%) species, and the Papilionidae family, which had two (6.25%) species. With regard to occurrence status, species of butterfly fauna found to be 17(53.12%) as com...
