Relative abundance of butterflies in all the three zones
A total of 417 individuals belonging to 68 species from 5 families were collected from all the three zones. (Table 1). The main families included Nymphalidae (45 species, 106 individuals), Papilionidae (2 species, 21 individuals), Pieridae (14 species, 123 individuals), Hesperiidae (4 species, 17 individuals) and Lycaenidae (3 species, 150 individuals). At the family level Papilionidae and Hesperiidae had the lowest number of individuals while Lycaenidae had the highest number of individuals (Table 1).