Seasonal Abundance of Butterfly Diversity in Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary Warangal, Telangana, India

Butterflies are one of the most attractive colorful insect in the nature. In the present study was carried out to in the butterfly diversity in Pakhal wildlife sanctuary Warangal district Telangana India from June 2015 to May 2016. A Total of 44 Butterflies species belonging to 27 species genera and four families were recorded during the study period. Nymphalidae family was the richest family that comprised (17and 38.63%) of the total species of butterfly recorded in the study area followed by Piriedae family (16 and 36.36%), Papilionidae family (6 and13.63%) and Lycaenidae family were the lowest recorded (5 and 11.36%) each respectively. Among these 44 butterfly species three species were found to be protecting under the Indian wildlife (protection) Act (1972).