List of butterflies of India

Krishna peacock (Papilio krishna). Voted as the national butterfly of India as well as the most beautiful Indian butterfly.

The following is a list of the butterflies of India.

India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat and cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, islands and continental areas, widely varying flora, and sharply marked seasons. India forms a large part of the Indomalayan biogeographical zone; many of the floral and faunal forms show Malayan affinities with some taxa being unique to the Indian region. In addition, India hosts three of the world's biodiversity hotspots: the Western Ghats, the Himalayas, and the hilly ranges bordering India and Myanmar, each having numerous endemic species. Accordingly, India's diverse and varied fauna include a rich variety of butterflies and moths. Brigadier William Harry Evans recorded approximately 1439 species of butterfly from British India, including Ceylon and Burma. After 1947, the rise of several new nations led to a reduction of the area forming part of India proper, and the number of species has been noted to be 1413 species.

Many papers and books have been written on Indian butterflies, some of the most famous are the Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India and The Book of Indian Butterflies.

Here is a key to the terms used in this list-

1. Endemic: Endemic species are species found only in a particular region, in this case, India.
2. Schedule 1: This is used on all species under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act (Amendment 2022).
3. Schedule 2: This is used on all species under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act (Amendment 2022).

History of studies on butterflies in India

The first book to deal with Indian butterflies was The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon by Lionel de Nicéville and G. F. L. Marshall, followed shortly after with Lepidoptera Indica by Frederic Moore.

From the 1920 to the 1960s, two major books on Indian butterflies were published. These were The Identification of Indian Butterflies by William Harry Evans and Butterflies of the Indian Region by Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth.

In recent times, field guides like Butterflies of India by Isaac Kehimkar and A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka by Peter Smetacek helped in spreading popularity on butterfly watching and identification.

The Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India by R. K. Varshney and Peter Smetacek provided the first complete list of the butterflies found in India.

Papilionidae

The Papilionidae or the swallowtail butterflies are a family of about 550 species. Many species show sexual dimorphism. Males of this family are attracted to wet mud (this behavior is called mud-puddling). The swallowtail butterflies have three well-developed pairs of legs and the abdomen is not covered by the wing. There are 96 species of this family found in India.

Papilioninae

Malabar rose, Pachliopta pandiyana

Southern birdwing, Troides minos

Troidini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common clubtail	Losaria doubledayi	2	Schedule 1
Andaman clubtail	Losaria rhodifer		Endemic
Common rose	Pachliopta aristolochiae	5
Crimson rose	Pachliopta hector		Schedule 2
Malabar rose	Pachliopta pandiyana		Endemic
Golden birdwing	Troides aeacus	1	Schedule 2
Common birdwing	Troides helena	3
Southern birdwing	Troides minos		Schedule 2, Endemic
Lesser batwing	Atrophaneura aidoneus
Common batwing	Atrophaneura astorion	1
Black windmill	Byasa crassipes		Schedule 1
Great windmill	Byasa dasarada	2
Rose windmill	Byasa latreillei	2	Schedule 2
Nevill's windmill	Byasa nevilli		Schedule 1
Chinese windmill	Byasa plutonius	2	Schedule 1, Schedule 2
De Nicéville's windmill	Byasa polla		Schedule 1
Common windmill	Byasa polyeuctes	2

Malabar banded swallowtail, Papilio liomedon

Common yellow swallowtail, Papilio machaon

Yellow gorgon, Meandrusa payeni

Tawny mime, Papilio agestor

Papilionini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Grand mormon	Papilio agenor	3	Schedule 2
Tawny mime	Papilio agestor	2
Redbreast	Papilio alcmenor	1
Blue peacock	Papilio arcturus	2
Chinese peacock	Papilio bianor	2
Tailed redbreast	Papilio bootes	2	Schedule 2
Malabar banded peacock	Papilio buddha		Schedule 2, Endemic
Common raven	Papilio castor	2
Yellow helen	Papilio chaon	1
Common mime	Papilio clytia	2	Schedule 2
Common banded peacock	Papilio crino		Schedule 2
Indian helen	Papilio daksha	1
Lime swallowtail	Papilio demoleus	1
Malabar raven	Papilio dravidarum		Endemic
Yellow-crested spangle	Papilio elephenor		Schedule 1
Lesser mime	Papilio epycides	1	Schedule 2
Everest yellow swallowtail	Papilio everesti	1
Red helen	Papilio helenus	1
Western tailed redbreast	Papilio janaka
Krishna peacock	Papilio krishna	2	Schedule 1
Malabar banded swallowtail	Papilio liomedon		Schedule 1, Endemic
Common yellow swallowtail	Papilio machaon	3	Schedule 2
Great mormon	Papilio memnon	1
Noble's helen	Papilio noblei
Green-banded peacock	Papilio palinurus	1	A vagrant to West Bengal
Great blue mime	Papilio paradoxa	1	Schedule 2
Paris peacock	Papilio paris	2
Common peacock	Papilio polyctor
Common mormon	Papilio polytes	3
Blue helen	Papilio prexaspes	1
Spangle	Papilio protenor	1
Blue-striped mime	Papilio slateri	1	Schedule 2
Eastern yellow swallowtail	Papilio verityi
Chinese yellow swallowtail	Papilio xuthus
Brown gorgon	Meandrusa lachinus	1	Schedule 2
Yellow gorgon	Meandrusa payeni	1

Tailed jay, Graphium agamemnon

Spot swordtail, Graphium nomius

Common bluebottle, Graphium sarpedon

Leptocircini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tailed jay	Graphium agamemnon	5
Fourbar swallowtail	Graphium agetes	1	Schedule 2
Scarce jay	Graphium albociliatus		Schedule 2
Fivebar swordtail	Graphium antiphates	2
Chain swordtail	Graphium aristeus	1	Schedule 2
Spotted jay	Graphium arycles		Schedule 2
Veined jay	Graphium chironides	1
Glassy bluebottle	Graphium cloanthus	1	Schedule 2
Common jay	Graphium doson	2
Andaman swordtail	Graphium epaminondas		Endemic
Sixbar swordtail	Graphium eurous	2
Great jay	Graphium eurypylus	2	Schedule 2
Western spectacle swordtail	Graphium garhwalica
Lesser zebra	Graphium macareus	2
Spotted zebra	Graphium megarus	1	Schedule 2
Spot swordtail	Graphium nomius	2
Indian spectacle swordtail	Graphium paphus
Common bluebottle	Graphium sarpedon	1
Cryptic bluebottle	Graphium septentrionicolus
Southern bluebottle	Graphium teredon
Great zebra	Graphium xenocles	2
White dragontail	Lamproptera curius	1
Green dragontail	Lamproptera meges	1	Schedule 2

Kaiser-i-hind, Teinopalpus imperialis

Teinopalpini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Kaiser-i-hind	Teinopalpus imperialis	2	Schedule 1

Parnassiinae

Sericinini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Bhutan glory	Bhutanitis lidderdalii	1	Schedule 1
Ludlow's Bhutan glory	Bhutanitis ludlowi		Schedule 1

Common blue apollo, Parnassius hardwickii

Scarce red apollo, Parnassius actius

Common red apollo, Parnassius epaphus

Parnassiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Varnished apollo	Parnassius acco	4	Schedule 1
Dusky apollo	Parnassius acdestis	4
Scarce red apollo	Parnassius actius	3
Noble apollo	Parnassius augustus
Regal apollo	Parnassius charltonius	9	Schedule 2
Common red apollo	Parnassius epaphus	9	Schedule 2
Common blue apollo	Parnassius hardwickii
Karakoram banded apollo	Parnassius hunza	2
Keeled apollo	Parnassius jacquemontii	5	Schedule 2
Himalayan banded apollo	Parnassius kumaonensis	2	P. nandadevinensis is merged here.
Stately apollo	Parnassius loxias	1
Royal apollo	Parnassius maharaja	1
Scarce banded apollo	Parnassius mamaievi	3
Black-edged apollo	Parnassius simo	7
Greater banded apollo	Parnassius stenosemus	6
Lesser banded apollo	Parnassius stoliczkanus	5	Schedule 1
Large keeled apollo	Parnassius tianshanica	1

Hesperiidae

The Hesperiidae or the skipper butterflies are a family of about 3500 species. Many members of this family are hard to distinguish from each other and require dissection to properly identify. They are called "skippers" due to their quick and darting flights. There are 293 species of this family found in India.

Brown awl, Badamia exclamationis

Common orange awlet, Burara jaina

Common banded awl, Hasora chromus

Coeliadinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Brown awl	Badamia exclamationis
Indian awlking	Choaspes benjaminii	2
Hooded awlking	Choaspes furcata
Branded awlking	Choaspes stigmata	1
Similar awlking	Choaspes xanthopogon	1
Slate awlet	Bibasis mahintha
Orange-tailed awlet	Bibasis sena	1	Schedule 2
Small green awlet	Burara amara
Plain orange awlet	Burara anadi
Great orange awlet	Burara etelka
Pale green awlet	Burara gomata	2
Orange striped awlet	Burara harisa	2
Common orange awlet	Burara jaina	3
Branded orange awlet	Burara oedipodea	1
Green awlet	Burara vasutana
Slate awl	Hasora anura	1
Common awl	Hasora badra	1
Common banded awl	Hasora chromus	1
Purple awl	Hasora danda
Large banded awl	Hasora khoda	1
Violet awl	Hasora leucospila
Green awl	Hasora salanga
Yellow banded awl	Hasora schoenherr	1
White-banded awl	Hasora taminatus	4
Plain banded awl	Hasora vitta	2

Eudaminae

Eudamini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Marbled flat	Lobocla liliana	3

Common small flat, Sarangesa dasahara

Tamil spotted flat, Celaenorrhinus ruficornis

Tagiadinae

Malabar flat, Celaenorrhinus ambareesa

Mussoorie spotted flat, Celaenorrhinus pero

Celaenorrhinini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common small flat	Sarangesa dasahara	4
Spotted small flat	Sarangesa purendra	4
Fulvous pied flat	Pseudocoladenia dan
Indented pied flat	Pseudocoladenia fabia
West Himalayan pied flat	Pseudocoladenia fatih
Sikkim pied flat	Pseudocoladenia fatua
Naga pied flat	Pseudocoladenia festa
Khasi yellow-banded flat	Celaenorrhinus affinis
Malabar flat	Celaenorrhinus ambareesa		Endemic
Andaman yellow-banded flat	Celaenorrhinus andamanicus	2
White-banded flat	Celaenorrhinus asmara	1
Large-streaked flat	Celaenorrhinus aspersa	1
Scarce banded flat	Celaenorrhinus badia
Himalayan yellow-banded flat	Celaenorrhinus dhanada	1
Buxa flat	Celaenorrhinus flavocincta
Common spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus leucocera
Evans' spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus morena
Himalayan spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus munda	2
Small banded flat	Celaenorrhinus nigricans	1
Large-spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus patula
Mussoorie spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus pero	2
De Nicéville's spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus plagifera
Multi-spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus pulomaya	1
Bengal spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus putra	1
Double-spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus pyrrha
Tytler's multi-spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus ratna	2
Tamil spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus ruficornis	1
Moore's spotted flat	Celaenorrhinus sumitra
Tibet flat	Celaenorrhinus tibetana
Swinhoe's flat	Celaenorrhinus zea
Dark yellow-banded flat	Aurivittia aurivittia

Golden angle, Abaratha ransonnetti

Black angle, Tapena thwaitesi

Large snow flat, Tagiades gana

Tricolor pied flat, Coladenia indrani

Large white flat, Satarupa gopala

Tagiadini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Spotted angle	Abaratha agama	1
Alida angle	Abaratha alida	3
Chestnut angle	Abaratha angulata	1
Golden angle	Abaratha ransonnetii	1
Snowy angle	Darpa dealbata
Hairy angle	Darpa hanria
Striated angle	Darpa striata	1
Zigzag flat	Odina decoratus
Tiny angle	Tapena miniscula
Multispot angle	Tapena multiguttata
Black angle	Tapena thwaitesi	1
Tawny angle	Tapena vasava	1
Common yellow-breast flat	Gerosis bhagava	2
Dusky yellow-breast flat	Gerosis phisara	1
White yellow-breast flat	Gerosis sinica	1
Striped snow flat	Tagiades cohaerens	1
Large snow flat	Tagiades gana	3
Common snow flat	Tagiades japetus	6
Water snow flat	Tagiades litigiosa	2
Spotted snow flat	Tagiades menaka	1
Straight snow flat	Tagiades parra	1
Striped dawnfly	Capila jayadeva
Lidderdale's dawnfly	Capila lidderdali
Fringed dawnfly	Capila penicillatum	1
Fulvous dawnfly	Capila phanaeus	2
White dawnfly	Capila pieridoides	1
Pale striped dawnfly	Capila zennara
Brown pied flat	Coladenia agni	1
Elwes' pied flat	Coladenia agnioides
Tricolor pied flat	Coladenia indrani	3
Grey pied flat	Coladenia laxmi	1
Large-spot pied flat	Coladenia pinsbukana	1
Large white flat	Satarupa gopala	1
Splendid white flat	Satarupa splendens
Tytler's white flat	Satarupa zulla	1
Himalayan white flat	Seseria dohertyi	1
Sikkim white flat	Seseria sambara	1
Crenulate orange flat	Pintara tabrica
Yellow flat	Mooreana trichoneura	1
Velvet flat	Charmion ficulnea	1

Plain marbled skipper, Carcharodus alceae

Pyrginae

Indian skipper, Spialia galba

Carcharodini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Desert skipper	Spialia doris	1
Indian skipper	Spialia galba	1
Greenish skipper	Spialia orbifer	1
Brick-red skipper	Spialia rubicunda
Zebra skipper	Spialia zebra	1
African grizzled skipper	Gomalia elma	1
Plain marbled skipper	Carcharodus alceae	1
Tufted marbled skipper	Carcharodus dravira

Pyrgini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Mountain skipper	Pyrgus alpinus	1
Kashmir skipper	Pyrgus cashmirensis	2
Darwaz skipper	Pyrgus darwazicus	1

Erynnini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Inky duskywing	Erynnis pathan
Frosted duskywing	Erynnis pelias	1

Olive flat, Chamunda chamunda

Chamundinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Olive flat	Chamunda chamunda

Heteropterinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Orange-and-silver hopper	Carterocephalus avanti	1

Barcinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Giant hopper	Apostictopterus fuliginosus	1

Hesperiinae

Atkinson's bob, Arnetta atkinsoni

Moore's ace, Halpe porus

Madras ace, Thoressa honorei

Tiger hopper, Ampittia subvittatus

Chocolate-bordered flitter, Zographetus dzonguensis

Veined palmer, Hidari bhawani

Aeromachini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Nonsuch palmer	Creteus cyrina	1
Atkinson's bob	Arnetta atkinsoni
Coorg forest bob	Arnetta mercara
Vindhyan bob	Arnetta vindhiana	2
Graham's ace	Sovia grahami	1
Lucas' ace	Sovia lucasii	1
Manipur ace	Sovia malta		Endemic (only known from Manipur)
Chequered ace	Sovia separata	1
Dingy scrub hopper	Aeromachus dubius	2
Grey scrub hopper	Aeromachus jhora	2
Blue-spotted scrub hopper	Aeromachus kali
Pygmy scrub hopper	Aeromachus pygmaeus
Veined scrub hopper	Aeromachus stigmata	2
Hedge hopper	Baracus vittatus	4
Overlapped ace	Halpe arcuata
Gold-spotted ace	Halpe aucma	1
Elwes' ace	Halpe filda
Tavoy sulphur ace	Halpe flava
Pale-marked ace	Halpe hauxwelli
Indian ace	Halpe homolea	1	Schedule 2
Knyvett's ace	Halpe knyvetti
Plain ace	Halpe kumara	1
Tenasserim ace	Halpe kusala
Molta ace	Halpe molta
Moore's ace	Halpe porus
Sikkim ace	Halpe sikkima
Confusing ace	Halpe wantona
Banded ace	Halpe zema	1
Long-banded ace	Halpe zola
Banded straw ace	Pithauria marsena
Dark straw ace	Pithauria murdava
Light straw ace	Pithauria stramineipennis	1
Fuscous ace	Pedesta fusca	1
Olive ace	Pedesta gupta	1
Largespot plain ace	Pedesta hyrie
Mussoorie bush bob	Pedesta masuriensis	1
Naga bush bob	Pedesta panda
Brown bush bob	Pedesta pandita
Garwhal ace	Thoressa aina
Southern spotted ace	Thoressa astigmata
Northern spotted ace	Thoressa cerata
Evershed's ace	Thoressa evershedi
Madras ace	Thoressa honorei
Mason's ace	Thoressa masoni
Tamil ace	Thoressa sitala		Endemic
Tufted ace	Sebastonyma dolopia
Bush hopper	Ampittia dioscorides	1
Scarce bush hopper	Ampittia maroides
Tiger hopper	Ampittia subvittatus	1
White-branded ace	Halpemorpha hyrtacus		Endemic
Veined dart	Actinor radians
Wax dart	Cupitha purreea
Chocolate-bordered flitter	Zographetus dzonguensis
Sikkim flitter	Zographetus flavalum
Sahyadri spotted flitter	Zographetus mathewi		Endemic
Purple-spotted flitter	Zographetus ogygia
Small flitter	Zographetus rama
Purple-and-gold flitter	Zographetus satwa
Desert torpedo	Eogenes alcides	1
Leslie's torpedo	Eogenes lesliei
Forest hopper	Astictopterus jama	1
Veined palmer	Hidari bhawani

Chequered darter, Hesperia comma

Hesperiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Chequered darter	Hesperia comma	1
Himalayan darter	Ochlodes brahma
Assam darter	Ochlodes siva	1
Sub-hyaline darter	Ochlodes subhyalina	1

Kanara swift, Caltoris canaraica

Paintbrush swift, Baoris farri

Small-branded swift, Pelopidas mathias

Rice swift, Borbo cinnara

Baorini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Himalayan swift	Zenonoida discreta	1
Yellow-spot swift	Zenonoida eltola	1
Yellow-fringed swift	Caltoris aurociliata
Extra-spot swift	Caltoris bromus	1
Dark-branded swift	Caltoris brunnea	1
Colon swift	Caltoris cahira	2
Kanara swift	Caltoris canaraica
Arunachal swift	Caltoris chimdroa
Confusing swift	Caltoris confusa
Full-stop swift	Caltoris cormasa
Blank swift	Caltoris kumara	2
Philippine swift	Caltoris philippina	1
Tufted swift	Caltoris plebeia
Sirius swift	Caltoris sirius	1
Purple swift	Tulsia tulsi	1
Paintbrush swift	Baoris farri	2
Figure of eight swift	Baoris pagana
Black paintbrush swift	Baoris penicillata	1
Obscure-branded swift	Pelopidas agna	1
Great swift	Pelopidas assamensis
Conjoined swift	Pelopidas conjuncta	2
Small-branded swift	Pelopidas mathias	1
Large-branded swift	Pelopidas sinensis
Moore's swift	Pelopidas subochracea	1
Pale small-branded swift	Pelopidas thrax	2
Beavan's swift	Pseudoborbo bevani
Dingy swift	Gegenes nostrodamus
Pygmy swift	Gegenes pumilio	1
Rice swift	Borbo cinnara
Contiguous swift	Polytremis lubricans	1
Baby swift	Polytremis minuta
Common wight	Iton semamora	1
Continental swift	Parnara ganga
Straight swift	Parnara guttatus	1
Oriental straight swift	Parnara bada

Coon, Psolos fuligo

Psolosini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Dark velvet bob	Koruthaialos butleri
Narrow-banded velvet bob	Koruthaialos rubecula	1
Bright red velvet bob	Koruthaialos sindu	1
Pale demon	Koruthaialos swinhoei	1
Coon	Psolos fuligo	1

Chestnut bob, Iambrix salsala

Ismini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Assam lancer	Isma bonota
Chestnut bob	Iambrix salsala	2

Grass demon, Ancistroides folus

Notocryptini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Chocolate demon	Tamela nigrita	1
Restricted demon	Ancistroides curvifascia	1
Spotted demon	Ancistroides feisthamelii	1
Grass demon	Ancistroides folus
Common banded demon	Ancistroides paralysos	3

Giant redeye, Gangara thyrsis

Indian palm bob, Suastus gremius

Forest bob, Scobura cephala

Grass bob, Suada swerga

Erionotini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Banded redeye	Gangara lebadea	2
Giant redeye	Gangara thyrsis	1
Small palm redeye	Erionota acroleuca	2
Palm redeye	Erionota thrax	1
Banana skipper	Erionota torus
Redeye palmer	Zela zeus	1
Yellowband palmer	Acerbas sarala	1
Common redeye	Matapa aria
Fringed redeye	Matapa cresta
Grey-brand redeye	Matapa druna
Purple redeye	Matapa purpurascens
Black-veined redeye	Matapa sasivarna
Hoary palmer	Unkana ambasa	1
Assamese yellow-vein lancer	Pyroneura margherita	1
Red-vein lancer	Pyroneura niasana	1
Indian palm bob	Suastus gremius	1
Small palm bob	Suastus minutus	3
Purple lancer	Salanoemia fuscicornis
Spotted yellow lancer	Salanoemia noemi
Maculate lancer	Salanoemia sala
Yellow-streaked lancer	Salanoemia tavoyana	1
Silver-spotted lancer	Plastingia naga
Green-striped palmer	Pirdana hyela	1
Plain green palmer	Pirdana distanti	1
Tree flitter	Hyarotis adrastus	1
Brush flitter	Hyarotis microstictum	2
Golden flitter	Quedara basiflava
Dubious flitter	Quedara monteithi	1
Forest bob	Scobura cephala
Large forest bob	Scobura cephaloides	1
Swinhoe's forest bob	Scobura isota
Assam forest bob	Scobura parawoolletti
Malay forest bob	Scobura phiditia
Tytler's forest bob	Scobura tytleri
Grass bob	Suada swerga	1
Spotted redeye	Pudicitia pholus

Common dartlet, Oriens gola

Indian dart, Potanthus pseudomaesa

Dark palm dart, Telicota bambusae

Common palm dart, Telicota colon

Taractrocerini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tamil dartlet	Oriens concinna		Endemic
Common dartlet	Oriens gola	2
Ceylon dartlet	Oriens goloides
Malay dartlet	Oriens paragola
Tamil grass dart	Taractrocera ceramas	5
Himalayan grass dart	Taractrocera danna
Common grass dart	Taractrocera maevius	1
Chinese dart	Potanthus confucius	3
Himalayan dart	Potanthus dara
Japanese dart	Potanthus flava	1
Sumatran dart	Potanthus ganda	1
Burmese dart	Potanthus juno
Forest dart	Potanthus lydia	1
Sikkim dart	Potanthus mara	1
Narrow bi-dent dart	Potanthus mingo	1
Brandless dart	Potanthus nesta	1
Pale dart	Potanthus pallida
Palni dart	Potanthus palnia	1
Yellow dart	Potanthus pava	1
Indian dart	Potanthus pseudomaesa	2
Branded dart	Potanthus rectifasciatus
Large dart	Potanthus serina	1
Yellow-and-black dart	Potanthus sita
Broad bi-dent dart	Potanthus trachala	2
Pale palm dart	Telicota augias	1
Dark palm dart	Telicota bambusae	1
Large palm dart	Telicota besta
Common palm dart	Telicota colon	3
Evans' palm dart	Telicota linna
Narrow-banded palm dart	Telicota ohara	1
Plain palm dart	Cephrenes acalle	2

Pieridae

The Pieridae or the white, yellow and sulphur butterflies are a family of about 1050 species. Most members of the family are white or yellow in colour. Butterflies of this family are attracted to wet mud. There are 101 species of this family found in India.

Lemon emigrant, Catopsilia pomona

Tree yellow, Gandaca harina

Three-spotted grass yellow, Eurema blanda

Nilgiri clouded yellow, Colias nilagiriensis

Coliadinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Lemon emigrant	Catopsilia pomona	1
Mottled emigrant	Catopsilia pyranthe	1
Orange emigrant	Catopsilia scylla	1
Tailed sulphur	Dercas verhuelli	1
Plain sulphur	Dercas lycorias	1	Schedule 2
Tibet brimstone	Gonepteryx amintha	1
Karakoram brimstone	Gonepteryx chitralensis
Lesser brimstone	Gonepteryx mahaguru	1
Himalayan brimstone	Gonepteryx nepalensis	2
Tree yellow	Gandaca harina	3
One-spot grass yellow	Eurema andersonii	3	Schedule 2
Three-spotted grass yellow	Eurema blanda	4
Small grass yellow	Eurema drona	1
Common grass yellow	Eurema hecabe	1
Spotless grass yellow	Eurema laeta	2
Nilgiri grass yellow	Eurema nilgiriensis		Endemic
Scarce grass yellow	Eurema simulatrix	1
Green clouded yellow	Colias alpherakii	1
Everest clouded yellow	Colias berylla	1
Pamir clouded yellow	Colias cocandica	1
Dwarf clouded yellow	Colias dubia
Fiery clouded yellow	Colias eogene	2	Schedule 2
Pale clouded yellow	Colias erate
Dark clouded yellow	Colias fieldii	1
Ladakh clouded yellow	Colias ladakensis		Schedule 2
Glaucous clouded yellow	Colias leechi	1
Marcopolo's clouded yellow	Colias marcopolo	1
Nilgiri clouded yellow	Colias nilagiriensis		Endemic
Fawcett's clouded yellow	Colias nina	1
Orange clouded yellow	Colias stoliczkana	2	Schedule 2
Lemon clouded yellow	Colias thrasibulus	1
Broad-bordered clouded yellow	Colias wiskotti	1

Pierinae

Psyche, Leptosia nina

Leptosiaini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Psyche	Leptosia nina	2

Great blackvein, Aporia agathon

Indian cabbage white, Pieris canidia

Common albatross, Appias albina

Painted sawtooth, Prioneris sita

Common gull, Cepora nerissa

Common jezebel, Delias eucharis

Pierini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Great blackvein	Aporia agathon	3
Baluchi blackvein	Aporia belucha	1
Yunnan black-veined white	Aporia goutellei
Bhutan blackvein	Aporia harrietae	1	Schedule 2
Naga blackvein	Aporia japfuensis
Dusky blackvein	Aporia nabellica	3	Schedule 2
Mishmi blackvein	Aporia omotoi
Thibet blackvein	Aporia peloria	1
Himalayan blackvein	Aporia soracta	2
Himalayan white	Pieris ajaka	2
Large cabbage white	Pieris brassicae	1
Indian cabbage white	Pieris canidia	2
Chumbi white	Pieris chumbiensis	2
Kashmir white	Pieris deota		Schedule 2
Mizo white	Pieris erutae	1
Bhutan white	Pieris extensa	1
Green-banded white	Pieris krueperi	1	Schedule 1
Small cabbage white	Pieris rapae	1
Cryptic white	Pieris tadokoroi
Naga white	Talbotia naganum	1
Butler's white	Pontia butleri	2	Schedule 1
Lofty bath white	Pontia callidice	1
Lesser bath white	Pontia chloridice	1	Schedule 2
Greater bath white	Pontia edusa	1
Desert bath white	Pontia glauconome
Shaw's dwarf	Pontia shawii	1
Common albatross	Appias albina	2	Schedule 2
Apricot albatross	Appias galba
Plain puffin	Appias indra	2	Schedule 2
Spot puffin	Appias lalage
Western striped albatross	Appias libythea	1
Eastern striped albatross	Appias olferna	1
Chocolate albatross	Appias lyncida	3	Schedule 2
Lesser albatross	Appias paulina	2
South Indian albatross	Appias wardii		Schedule 2
Nicobar albatross	Catophaga panda	1	Endemic
Redspot sawtooth	Prioneris philonome	1
Painted sawtooth	Prioneris sita
Spotted sawtooth	Prioneris thestylis	1
Pioneer	Belenois aurota	1
Andaman gull	Cepora lichenosa		Endemic
Lesser gull	Cepora nadina	3	Schedule 2
Common gull	Cepora nerissa	2
Redbreast jezabel	Delias acalis	2
Yellow jezabel	Delias agostina	1
Hill jezabel	Delias belladonna	3
Dark jezabel	Delias berinda	3
Redspot jezabel	Delias descombesi	1
Common jezabel	Delias eucharis
Painted jezabel	Delias hyparete	3
Broadwing jezabel	Delias lativitta	2	Schedule 2
Redbase jezabel	Delias pasithoe	1
Pale jezabel	Delias sanaca	3	Schedule 1

Yellow orange-tip, Ixias pyrene

Small salmon arab, Colotis amata

Euchloeini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Little white	Euchloe daphalis	1
White orange tip	Ixias marianne
Yellow orange tip	Ixias pyrene	4
Small salmon arab	Colotis amata	2
Plain orange tip	Colotis aurora	1
Crimson tip	Colotis danae	1
Little orange tip	Colotis etrida	1
Large salmon arab	Colotis fausta	2
White arab	Colotis phisadia	1
Blue-spotted arab	Colotis protractus
Indian wanderer	Pareronia anais	2
Pale wanderer	Pareronia avatar		Schedule 2
Dark wanderer	Pareronia ceylanica	1
Great orange tip	Hebomoia glaucippe	3
Andaman great orange tip	Hebomoia roepstorfii		Endemic

Riodinidae

The Riodinidae or the metalmark butterflies are a family of about 1600 species. The name "metalmark" owes to the metallic spots on the Neotropical members of this family. There are 21 species of this family found in India.

Riodininae

Abnormal judy, Abisara abnormis

Abisarini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Abnormal judy	Abisara abnormis
Double-banded judy	Abisara bifasciata	3
Plum judy	Abisara echerius	2
Malayan plum judy	Abisara saturata	1
Harlequin	Taxila haquinus	1
Burn's judy	Sibosia burnii
Short-tailed judy	Archigenes attenuata
Spot judy	Archigenes chela	2
Tailed judy	Archigenes neophron	2

Common punch, Dodona durga

Nemeobiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tamerlane's coppermark	Polycaena tamerlana	1
Striped punch	Dodona adonira	2	Schedule 2
Broad-banded punch	Dodona deodata	1
Lesser punch	Dodona dipoea	2	Schedule 2
Common punch	Dodona durga	1
Orange punch	Dodona egeon	1	Schedule 2
Tailed punch	Dodona eugenes	2
Mixed punch	Dodona ouida	2
Dark judy	Spitosa fylla
Mountain columbine	Stiboges elodinia
Columbine	Stiboges nymphidia	1
Punchinello	Zemeros flegyas	1

Lycaenidae

The Lycaenidae or the gossamer-winged butterflies are a large family of about 6000 species. They are a group of relatively small butterflies, and most species are attracted to flowers. There are 402 species of this family found in India.

Indian sunbeam, Curetis thetis

Curetinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Angled sunbeam	Curetis acuta	1
Bright sunbeam	Curetis bulis	1
Naga sunbeam	Curetis naga
Burmese sunbeam	Curetis saronis	5
Shiva sunbeam	Curetis siva
Indian sunbeam	Curetis thetis	1

Blue gem, Poritia erycinoides

Poritinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Blue gem	Poritia erycinoides	1	Schedule 2
Common gem	Poritia hewitsoni	1	Schedule 2
Broad-banded brilliant	Simiskina phalena	1	Schedule 1

Liphyrinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Moth butterfly	Liphyra brassolis	1	Schedule 1

Miletinae

Apefly, Spalgis epius

Miletini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Great darkie	Allotinus drumila	1	Schedule 1
Blue darkie	Allotinus subviolaceus	1	Schedule 2
Brown-tipped darkie	Allotinus taras
Common darkie	Allotinus unicolor	1
Dark mottle	Logania distanti	1	Schedule 2
Pale mottle	Logania marmorata	1
Watson's mottle	Logania watsoniana		Schedule 1
Common brownie	Miletus chinensis	2	Schedule 1
Manipur brownie	Miletus mallus
Coorg brownie	Miletus nymphis	1
Forest pierrot	Taraka hamada	1
Assam apefly	Spalgis baiongus
Apefly	Spalgis epius	1

Lycaeninae

Common copper, Lycaena phleas

Golden sapphire, Heliophorus brahma

Lycaenini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Ladakh copper	Lycaena aditya	1
Plain copper	Lycaena alpherakii
Green copper	Lycaena kasyapa	1
White-bordered copper	Lycaena pavana
Common copper	Lycaena phlaeas	4
Chitral purple copper	Hyrcanana evansii
Green sapphire	Heliophorus androcles	2	Schedule 2
Western blue sapphire	Heliophorus bakeri
Golden sapphire	Heliophorus brahma	1
Purple sapphire	Heliophorus epicles	1
Hybrid sapphire	Heliophorus hybrida		Schedule 1
Restricted purple sapphire	Heliophorus ila	1
Indian purple sapphire	Heliophorus indicus
Naga sapphire	Heliophorus kohimensis	1	Schedule 2
Azure sapphire	Heliophorus moorei	2	Schedule 2
Eastern blue sapphire	Heliophorus oda
Sorrel sapphire	Heliophorus sena
Powdery green sapphire	Heliophorus tamu	2

Lilac silverline, Cigaritis lilacinus

Silver-red silverline, Cigaritis rukma

Aphnaeinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Abnormal silverline	Cigaritis abnormis		Endemic
Tawny silverline	Cigaritis acamas	1
Chitral silverline	Cigaritis chitralensis
Scarce shot silverline	Cigaritis elima	2	Schedule 2
Elwes' silverline	Cigaritis elwesi		Schedule 2
Cinnamon silverline	Cigaritis evansii	1
Common shot silverline	Cigaritis ictis	1
Lilac silverline	Cigaritis lilacinus		Schedule 2
Long-banded silverline	Cigaritis lohita	3	Schedule 2
Cloud silverline	Cigaritis meghamalaiensis		Endemic
Mishmi silverline	Cigaritis mishmisensis
SIlver-grey silverline	Cigaritis nipalicus		Schedule 2
Silver-red silverline	Cigaritis rukma
Khaki silverline	Cigaritis rukmini		Schedule 2
Plumbeous silverline	Cigaritis schistacea	1
Club silverline	Cigaritis syama	1
Common silverline	Cigaritis vulcanus	1
Contiguous silverline	Cigaritis zhengweilie	1

Translucent hairstreak, Yamamotozephyrus kwangtungensis

Theclinae

Water hairstreak, Euaspa milionia

Wonderful hairstreak, Thermozephyrus ataxus

Theclini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Nepal walnut blue	Chaetoprocta kurumi	1
Walnut blue	Chaetoprocta odata	2
Orange-disc hairstreak	Euaspa hishikawai	1
Water hairstreak	Euaspa milionia	1
Darjeeling hairstreak	Euaspa miyashitai
Arunachal hairstreak	Euaspa mikamii
Kachin hairstreak	Euaspa motokii
Peacock hairstreak	Euaspa pavo		Schedule 1
White-spotted hairstreak	Shizuyaozephyrus ziha		Schedule 2
Suroifui hairstreak	Fujiokaozephyrus tsangkie	1
Indian purple hairstreak	Iwaseozephyrus mandara	3
Dull green hairstreak	Esakiozephyrus icana	1	Schedule 2
Translucent hairstreak	Yamamotozephyrus kwangtungensis	1
Howarth's green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus disparatus	2
Metallic green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus duma
Broad-bordered green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus dumoides
Intermediate green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus intermedius	1
Kabru green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus kabrua	1	Schedule 2
Sanders' green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus sandersi
Sikkim green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus sikkimensis
Manipur green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus tytleri	1
Naga green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus vittatus	1	Schedule 2
Powdered green hairstreak	Chrysozephyrus zoa	1	Schedule 2
Cerulean hairstreak	Neozephyrus suroia	1	Schedule 2
Bhutan hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus bhutanensis
Fawn hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus birupa
Jakama hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus jakamensis		Schedule 2
Tailless metallic green hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus khasia		Schedule 2
Kirbari hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus kirbariensis	1	Schedule 2
Paona hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus paona	1	Schedule 1
Kumaon hairstreak	Shirozuozephyrus triloka
Assam hairstreak	Inomataozephyrus assamicus
Silver hairstreak	Inomataozephyrus syla		Schedule 2
Wonderful hairstreak	Thermozephyrus ataxus	2	Schedule 2
Pale hairstreak	Leucantigius atayalicus	1

Indian oakblue, Arhopala atrax

Centaur oakblue, Arhopala centaurus

Tailless bushblue, Arhopala ganesa

Yellowdisc oakblue, Arhopala perimuta

Sylhet oakblue, Arhopala silhetensis

Many-tailed oakblue, Thaduka multicaudata

Variegated plushblue, Flos adriana

Common acacia blue, Surendra quercetorum

Silver-streaked acacia blue, Zinaspa todara

Arhopalini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Chinese hairstreak	Amblopala avidiena	1	Schedule 1
Pale bushblue	Arhopala aberrans		Schedule 2
Tytler's dull oakblue	Arhopala ace	1	Schedule 1
Dawnas tailless oakblue	Arhopala aaeta
De Nicéville's dull oakblue	Arhopala agrata	1	Schedule 2
Kanara oakblue	Arhopala alea		Schedule 1, Endemic
Tytler's rosy oakblue	Arhopala allata	1	Schedule 2
Silky oakblue	Arhopala alax
Pallid oakblue	Arhopala alesia	2	Schedule 2
Large oakblue	Arhopala amantes	3
Dark bushblue	Arhopala ammonides	1
Magnificent oakblue	Arhopala anarte
Multi-spotted oakblue	Arhopala anthelus	1
Chocolate bushblue	Arhopala ariel		Schedule 1
Purple-brown tailless oakblue	Arhopala arvina	1	Schedule 1
Broad-banded oakblue	Arhopala asinarus	1
Plain tailless oakblue	Arhopala asopia		Schedule 1
Vinous oakblue	Arhopala athada	1
Indian oakblue	Arhopala atrax
Grey-washed oakblue	Arhopala aurelia
Tamil oakblue	Arhopala bazaloides	1	Schedule 2
Powdered oakblue	Arhopala bazalus	1
Doherty's oakblue	Arhopala belphoebe	1
Burmese bushblue	Arhopala birmana	1
Lilac oakblue	Arhopala camdeo	1	Schedule 2
Centaur oakblue	Arhopala centaurus	3
Comic oakblue	Arhopala comica	1	Schedule 1
Bhutan oakblue	Arhopala curiosa
White-spotted oakblue	Arhopala democritus	1	Subspecies not named
Frosted oakblue	Arhopala dispar	1
Pale Himalayan oakblue	Arhopala dodonaea
Green oakblue	Arhopala eumolphus	1
Spotless oakblue	Arhopala fulla	2	Schedule 2
Tailless bushblue	Arhopala ganesa	2	Schedule 2
Pointed green oakblue	Arhopala hellenore	1
Doherty's dull oakblue	Arhopala khamti
Large-spotted oakblue	Arhopala nicevillei
Hewitson's dull oakblue	Arhopala oenea		Schedule 2
Opal oakblue	Arhopala opalina	1	Schedule 1
Dusky bushblue	Arhopala paraganesa	2	Schedule 2
Glazed oakblue	Arhopala paralea		Schedule 2
Hooked oakblue	Arhopala paramuta	1
Yellowdisc tailless oakblue	Arhopala perimuta	1
Dark Himalayan oakblue	Arhopala rama	2
Rosy oakblue	Arhopala selta	1
Sylhet oakblue	Arhopala silhetensis	1	Schedule 2
Yellowdisc oakblue	Arhopala singla
Andaman tailless oakblue	Arhopala zeta		Schedule 1, Endemic
Many-tailed oakblue	Thaduka multicaudata	1	Schedule 2
Crenulate oakblue	Apporasa atkinsoni
Falcate oakblue	Mahathala ameria	2	Schedule 2
Aberrant bushblue	Flos abseus	1
Variegated plushblue	Flos adriana
Brilliant plushblue	Flos anniella	1
Plain plushblue	Flos apidanus	1	Schedule 2
Tailless plushblue	Flos areste		Schedule 2
Chinese plushblue	Flos chinensis
Bifid plushblue	Flos diardi	1
Shining plushblue	Flos fulgida	1
Saffron	Mota massyla
Common acacia blue	Surendra quercetorum	3
Silver-streaked acacia blue	Zinaspa todara	2	Schedule 2

Redspot, Zesius chrysomallus

Zesiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Redspot	Zesius chrysomallus

Amblypodiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Purple leaf blue	Amblypodia anita	3
Scarce silverstreak blue	Iraota rochana	1	Schedule 2
SIlverstreak blue	Iraota timoleon	2

Common tinsel, Catapaecilma major

Catapaecilmatini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common tinsel	Catapaecilma major	3	Schedule 2
Yellow tinsel	Catapaecilma subochrea	1
Dark tinsel	Acupicta delicatum		Schedule 2

Loxurini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Yamfly	Loxura atymnus	4
Branded yamfly	Yasoda tripunctata	1	Schedule 2

Brown yam, Drina donina

Drinini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Brown yam	Drina donina

Monkey puzzle, Rathinda amor

Cheritrini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Violet onyx	Horaga albimacula	2	Schedule 2
Common onyx	Horaga onyx	3	Schedule 2
Yellow onyx	Horaga syrinx	1
Litin onyx	Horaga takanamii	1	Subspecies not named
Monkey puzzle	Rathinda amor
Common imperial	Cheritra freja	2
Truncate imperial	Cheritrella truncipennis		Schedule 2
Blue imperial	Ticherra acte	1
Blue posy	Drupadia scaeva	1	Schedule 1

Peacock royal, Tajuria cippus

Plains blue royal, Tajuria jehana

Iolaini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Slate royal	Pratapa bhotea	1
White-tufted royal	Pratapa deva	2	Schedule 2
Dark blue royal	Pratapa icetas	3	Schedule 2
Blue royal	Pratapa icetoides	1
Pallid royal	Tajuria albiplaga	1	Schedule 2
Peacock royal	Tajuria cippus	1	Schedule 2
Black-branded royal	Tajuria culta		Schedule 2
Flash royal	Tajuria deudorix	1
Straightline royal	Tajuria diaeus	1	Schedule 2
Scarce white royal	Tajuria illurgioides		Schedule 2
White royal	Tajuria illurgis	1	Schedule 2
Bornean royal	Tajuria isaeus	1
Uncertain royal	Tajuria ister	1	Schedule 2
Plains blue royal	Tajuria jehana	1
Spotted royal	Tajuria maculata
Orange-and-black royal	Tajuria megistia	1
Branded royal	Tajuria melastigma		Schedule 2
Cerulean royal	Tajuria nela	1
Chestnut-and-black royal	Tajuria yajna	2	Schedule 1, Schedule 2
White-banded royal	Dacalana cotys	1
Narrow-banded royal	Dacalana vui
Double-tufted royal	Dacalana penicilligera
Broadtail royal	Creon cleobis	1
Baby royal	Bullis buto	1
Banded royal	Rachana jalindra	3	Schedule 2
Pale grand imperial	Neocheritra fabronia	1	Schedule 2
Cachar mandarin blue	Charana cepheis		Schedule 1
Mandarin blue	Charana mandarina	1
Red imperial	Suasa lisides	1	Schedule 2
Azure royal	Britomartis cleoboides	1

Cornelian, Deudorix epijarbas

Broad spark, Sinthusa chandrana

Common guava blue, Virachola isocrates

Malabar flash, Rapala lankana

Indigo flash, Rapala varuna

Deudorigini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Cornelian	Deudorix epijarbas	1
Assam cornelian	Deudorix gaetulia
Doherty's guava blue	Virachola dohertyi
Common guava blue	Virachola isocrates
Whiteline flash	Virachola kessuma	1
Large guava blue	Virachola perse	2
Refulgent flash	Virachola refulgens		Schedule 2
Rosy guava blue	Virachola rubida
Scarce guava blue	Virachola similis	2
Green flash	Artipe eryx	1	Schedule 2
Broad spark	Sinthusa chandrana	2	Schedule 2
Obscure spark	Sinthusa confusa
Narrow spark	Sinthusa nasaka	2	Schedule 2
Yunnan spark	Sinthusa menglaensis
Pale spark	Sinthusa virgo		Schedule 2
Witch	Araotes lapithis	1	Schedule 2
Plane	Bindahara phocides	2	Schedule 2
Blue-bordered plane	Bindahara moorei
Malay red flash	Rapala damona
Scarlet flash	Rapala dieneces	2
Chitral flash	Rapala extensa
Cryptic flash	Rapala huangi
Common red flash	Rapala iarbus	2
Malabar flash	Rapala lankana		Endemic
Slate flash	Rapala manea	1
Brilliant flash	Rapala melida	1
Common flash	Rapala nissa	1
Copper flash	Rapala pheretima	1
Shot flash	Rapala rectivitta
Rosy flash	Rapala rosacea
Scarce red flash	Rapala scintilla	1	Schedule 2
Himalayan red flash	Rapala selira
Suffused flash	Rapala suffusa	1
Assam flash	Rapala tara
Indigo flash	Rapala varuna	4	Schedule 2
Lister's hairstreak	Pamela dudgeonii		Schedule 2

Eumaeini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Naga elfin	Callophrys huertasblancae
Ferruginous elfin	Callophrys leechii		Schedule 1
Chindwin elfin	Callophrys monstrabila
Mackwood's hairstreak	Satyrium mackwoodi		Schedule 1
Moore's hairstreak	Satyrium deria

Polyommatinae

Chocolate royal, Remelana jangala

Remelanini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Chocolate royal	Remelana jangala	2	Schedule 2
Silver royal	Ancema blanka	2	Schedule 2
Bi-spot royal	Ancema ctesia	1

Nilgiri tit, Hypolycaena nilgirica

Hypolycaenini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Fluffy tit	Hypolycaena amasa	1
Common tit	Hypolycaena erylus	2
Blue tit	Hypolycaena kina	1	Schedule 2
Banded tit	Hypolycaena narada
Nilgiri tit	Hypolycaena nilgirica		Schedule 2
Orchid tit	Hypolycaena othona	1	Schedule 1
Brown tit	Hypolycaena thecloides	1	Schedule 2 (for the Nicobar subspecies)

Ciliate blue, Anthene emolus

Lycaenesthini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Ciliate blue	Anthene emolus	2
Pointed ciliate blue	Anthene lycaenina	2	Schedule 2

Dingy lineblue, Petrelaea dana

Transparent six-lineblue, Nacaduba kurava

Large four-lineblue, Nacaduba pactolus

Glistening cerulean, Jamides elpis

Forget-me-not, Catochrysops strabo

Zebra blue, Leptotes plinius

Common pierrot, Castalius rosimon

Tiny grass blue, Zizula hylax

Red pierrot, Talicada nyseus

African babul blue, Azanus jesous

Plain hedge blue, Celastrina lavendularis

Common hedge blue, Acytolepis puspa

Grass jewel, Freyeria trochylus

Plains cupid, Luthrodes pandava

Small green underwing, Pamiria metallica

Common blue, Polyommatus icarus

Polyommatini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Fawcett's pierrot	Niphanda asialis	1
Pointed pierrot	Niphanda cymbia	1	Schedule 2
Singleton	Una usta	1	Schedule 2
Straightwing blue	Orthomiella pontis	1	Schedule 2
Burmese straightwing blue	Orthomiella rantaizana	1
Dingy lineblue	Petrelaea dana
Rounded six-lineblue	Nacaduba berenice	2
Opaque six-lineblue	Nacaduba beroe	1
Dark Ceylon six-lineblue	Nacaduba calauria	1
Pale four-lineblue	Nacaduba hermus	3	Schedule 2
Transparent six-lineblue	Nacaduba kurava	3
Large four-lineblue	Nacaduba pactolus	3	Schedule 2
Small four-lineblue	Nacaduba pavana	2
Jewel four-lineblue	Nacaduba sanaya	1
Pale Ceylon six-lineblue	Nacaduba sinhala	1
Violet four-lineblue	Nacaduba subperusia	2
Barred lineblue	Prosotas aluta	1	Schedule 2
Bhutya lineblue	Prosotas bhutea	1	Schedule 2
Tailless lineblue	Prosotas dubiosa	1	Schedule 2
Brown lineblue	Prosotas lutea	1
Common lineblue	Prosotas nora	3
White-tipped lineblue	Prosotas noreia	1	Schedule 2
Margined lineblue	Prosotas pia	1
Pointed lineblue	Ionolyce helicon	4	Schedule 2
Felder's lineblue	Catopyrops ancyra	1	Schedule 2
Angled pierrot	Caleta decidia	1
Elbowed pierrot	Caleta elna	1
Straight pierrot	Caleta roxus	2	Schedule 2
Banded blue pierrot	Discolampa ethion	2
Metallic cerulean	Jamides alecto	3	Schedule 2
Dark cerulean	Jamides bochus	1
Royal cerulean	Jamides caeruleus	1	Schedule 2
Common cerulean	Jamides celeno	4
Glistening cerulean	Jamides elpis	2
Ferrar's cerulean	Jamides ferrari	1	Schedule 1
Frosted cerulean	Jamides kankena	1	Schedule 2
White cerulean	Jamides pura	1	Schedule 2
Silver forget-me-not	Catochrysops panormus	2
Forget-me-not	Catochrysops strabo	1
Pea blue	Lampides boeticus
Zebra blue	Leptotes plinius
Common pierrot	Castalius rosimon	1
Dark pierrot	Tarucus ananda
Black-spotted pierrot	Tarucus balkanica	1
Spotted pierrot	Tarucus callinara		Schedule 2
Hazara pierrot	Tarucus hazara
Indian pierrot	Tarucus indica
Striped pierrot	Tarucus nara
Himalayan pierrot	Tarucus venosus
Assam pierrot	Tarucus waterstradti	1	Schedule 2
Dark grass blue	Zizeeria karsandra
Pale grass blue	Pseudozizeeria maha	2
Lesser grass blue	Zizina otis	1
Tiny grass blue	Zizula hylax	1
Shandur cupid	Cupido buddhista
Pamir cupid	Everes alaina
Tailed cupid	Everes argiades	2
Indian cupid	Lacturnea lacturnus	3
Dusky-blue cupid	Huegelia huegelii	2
Dull cupid	Huegelia irungbami
Gilgit mountain blue	Iolana gigantea	1
Hedge cupid	Bothrinia chennellii	1	Schedule 2
Black cupid	Tongeia kala		Schedule 2
False Tibetan cupid	Tongeia pseudozuthus
Moore's cupid	Shijimia moorei	1
Red pierrot	Talicada nyseus	3
Forest quaker	Pithecops corvus	1
Blue quaker	Pithecops fulgens	1	Schedule 2
African babul blue	Azanus jesous	1
Bright babul blue	Azanus ubaldus
Dull babul blue	Azanus uranus
Quaker	Neopithecops zalmora	3
Malayan	Megisba malaya	3	Schedule 2
Holly blue	Celastrina argiolus	2
Silvery hedge blue	Celastrina gigas
Mishmi hedge blue	Celastrina hersilia	1
Large hedge blue	Celastrina huegelii	2
Plain hedge blue	Celastrina lavendularis	2
Khasi hedge blue	Celastrina oreas	1
White-banded hedge blue	Lestranicus transpectus
Whitedisc hedge blue	Celatoxia albidisca
Margined hedge blue	Celatoxia marginata	1
Chapman's hedge blue	Notarthinus binghami		Schedule 1
Hampson's hedge blue	Acytolepis lilacea	1	Schedule 2
Common hedge blue	Acytolepis puspa	4
Naga hedge blue	Oreolyce dohertyi		Schedule 1
Dusky hedge blue	Oreolyce vardhana	2
Metallic hedge blue	Callenya melaena	1	Schedule 2
Swinhoe's hedge blue	Monodontides musina	1
White hedge blue	Udara akasa	1
Albocerulean	Udara albocaerulea	1	Schedule 2
Pale hedge blue	Udara dilectus	1
Narrow-bordered hedge blue	Udara placidula	1
Bicolored hedge blue	Udara selma	1
Singhalese hedge blue	Udara singalensis
Gram blue	Euchrysops cnejus	1
Small grass jewel	Freyeria putli	1
Grass jewel	Freyeria trochylus	1
Plains cupid	Luthrodes pandava
Lime blue	Chilades lajus	1
Small cupid	Chilades parrhasius	1
Chitral argus blue	Turanana chitrali
Eastern baton blue	Pseudophilotes vicrama	2
Great spotted blue	Phengaris atroguttata	1	Schedule 2
Pamir jewel blue	Plebejus eversmanni	1	Schedule 2
Ladakh jewel blue	Plebejus samudra
Orange-bordered argus blue	Aricia agestis	1
Northern brown argus	Aricia artaxerxes	1
Astor argus blue	Eumedonia astorica
Streaked argus blue	Eumedonia eumedon
White-ringed argus blue	Grumiana annulata
Kamba mountain blue	Agriades arcaseia
Azure mountain blue	Agriades asiatica
Common mountain blue	Agriades lehanus
Alpine mountain blue	Agriades orbitulus	1
Sikkim mountain blue	Agriades sikhima
Greenish mountain blue	Agriades jaloka	4
Evans' mountain blue	Agriades morsheadi
Tien Shan mountain blue	Agriades pheretiades
Golden green underwing	Pamiria chrysopis	2
Large green underwing	Pamiria galathea	3
Small green underwing	Pamiria metallica	1
Dusky green underwing	Pamiria omphisa
Sikkim green underwing	Pamiria sikkima
Garwhal green underwing	Pamiria wojtusiaki
Chumbi green underwing	Patricius younghusbandi	2	Schedule 2
Large jewel blue	Plebejidea loewii	1
Baluchi jewel blue	Kretania beani
Bálint's meadow blue	Kretania csomai
Chitral argus blue	Afarsia ashretha	1
Jewel argus blue	Afarsia hanna
Afghan meadow blue	Alpherakya bellona
Dusky meadow blue	Alpherakya devanica	1	Schedule 2
Rupal meadow blue	Alpherakya rupala
Ladakh meadow blue	Alpherakya sartoides
Lahaul meadow blue	Polyommatus ariana
Kumaon meadow blue	Polyommatus dux	2
Briliant meadow blue	Polyommatus florenciae
Hunza meadow blue	Polyommatus hunza
Common blue	Polyommatus icarus	1
Gilgit meadow blue	Polyommatus icadius
Kashmir meadow blue	Polyommatus pseuderos
Beautiful meadow blue	Polyommatus pulchella
Himalayan meadow blue	Polyommatus stoliczkana	3

Nymphalidae

The Nymphalidae or brush-footed butterflies are the largest family of butterflies by number of species (more than 6000 species are described). They are medium sized to large butterflies and are often easily distinguishable in the field. The uppersides are usually more vibrantly colored than the undersides. Most species can be found basking in the sun or visiting flowers and over-ripe fruits. There are 500 species of this family found in India.

Common beak, Libythea lepita

Libytheinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common beak	Libythea lepita	2	Schedule 2
Club beak	Libythea myrrha	2
White-spotted beak	Libythea narina	1

Danainae

Nilgiri tiger, Parantica nilgiriensis

Blue tiger, Tirumala limniace

Danaini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Glassy tiger	Parantica aglea	3
Dark glassy tiger	Parantica agleoides	1
Chocolate tiger	Parantica melaneus
Nilgiri tiger	Parantica nilgiriensis		Endemic
Talbot's chestnut tiger	Parantica pedonga
Chestnut tiger	Parantica sita	1
Swinhoe's chocolate tiger	Parantica swinhoei	1
Grey glassy tiger	Ideopsis juventa	1
Blue glassy tiger	Ideopsis similis	1
Scarce blue tiger	Tirumala gautama	1	Schedule 1
Blue tiger	Tirumala limniace	1
Dark blue tiger	Tirumala septentrionis	2
Malay tiger	Danaus affinis	1
Plain tiger	Danaus chrysippus	1
Common tiger	Danaus genutia	1
White tiger	Danaus melanippus	3

Common crow, Euploea core

Magpie crow, Euploea radamanthus

King crow, Euploea klugii

Euploeini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Long-branded blue crow	Euploea algea	1	Schedule 2
Andaman crow	Euploea andamanensis	3	Endemic
Common crow	Euploea core	2
Spotted black crow	Euploea crameri	4	Schedule 1
Striped black crow	Euploea doubledayi	1
Blue-branded king crow	Euploea eunice	1
King crow	Euploea klugii	2
Spotted blue crow	Euploea midamus	3	Schedule 1, Schedule 2
Plain blue crow	Euploea modesta
Striped blue crow	Euploea mulciber	2
Great crow	Euploea phaenareta	1
Magpie crow	Euploea radamanthus	2
Nicobar crow	Euploea scherzeri	3	Endemic
Double-branded crow	Euploea sylvester	3
Burmese tree nymph	Idea agamarschana	1
Malabar tree nymph	Idea malabarica	2	Schedule 2, Endemic

Charaxinae

Black rajah, Eriboea solon

Anomalous nawab, Polyura agrarius

Common nawab, Polyura athamas

Charaxini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Anomalous nawab	Polyura agrarius	1
Pallid nawab	Polyura arja
Common nawab	Polyura athamas	2	Schedule 2
Cryptic nawab	Polyura bharata
Jewelled nawab	Polyura delphis	1	Schedule 2
Stately nawab	Polyura dolon	4	Schedule 2
Great nawab	Polyura eudamippus	1
Malayan nawab	Polyura moori	1	Schedule 1
China nawab	Polyura narcaeus	2	Schedule 2
Blue nawab	Polyura schreiber	3	Schedule 1
Black rajah	Eriboea solon	1	Schedule 2
Scarce tawny rajah	Charaxes aristogiton	1	Schedule 2
Tawny rajah	Charaxes bernardus	2	Schedule 2
Chestnut rajah	Charaxes durnfordi	1	Schedule 1
Variegated rajah	Charaxes kahruba		Schedule 2
Yellow rajah	Charaxes marmax	1	Schedule 2
Plain tawny rajah	Charaxes psaphon	1

Prothoini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Blue begum	Prothoe franck	1	Schedule 1

Satyrinae

Common faun, Faunis canens

Common duffer, Discophora sondaica

Northern junglequeen, Stichophthalma camadeva

Amathusiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Large faun	Faunis eumeus	1
Common faun	Faunis canens	1
Yellow dryad	Aemona amathusia	1
Blue caliph	Enispe cycnus	1
Red caliph	Enispe euthymius	1
Malayan red caliph	Enispe duranius	1
Banded duffer	Discophora deo	1	Schedule 1
Southern duffer	Discophora lepida	1
Common duffer	Discophora sondaica	1	Schedule 1
Great duffer	Discophora timora	2
Andaman palmking	Amathusia andamanensis		Endemic
Travancore palmking	Amathusia travancorica		Endemic
Koh-i-noor	Amathuxidia amythaon	1
Jungleglory	Thaumantis diores	1
Jungleking	Thauria lathyi	1
Northern jungelqueen	Stichophthalma camadeva	4	Schedule 1
Hainan junglequeen	Stichophthalma neumogeni	1
Chocolate jungelqueen	Stichophthalma nourmahal	1
Manipur junglequeen	Stichophthalma sparta	2

Tailed palmfly, Elymnias caudata

Elymniini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tailed palmfly	Elymnias caudata		Endemic
Common palmfly	Elymnias hypermnestra	2
Spotted palmfly	Elymnias malelas		Schedule 2
Tiger palmfly	Elymnias nesaea	1
Chestnut palmfly	Elymnias obnubila
Tawny palmfly	Elymnias panthera	1
Blue-striped palmfly	Elymnias patna	1
Peal's palmfly	Elymnias peali		Schedule 1
Pointed palmfly	Elymnias penanga	1	Schedule 1
Jezabel palmfly	Elymnias vasudeva		Schedule 2

Common evening brown, Melanitis leda

Melanitini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common evening brown	Melanitis leda	1
Dark evening brown	Melanitis phedima	4
Great evening brown	Melanitis zitenius	4	Schedule 2
Scarce evening brown	Cyllogenes janetae	2	Schedule 2
Branded evening brown	Cyllogenes suradeva		Schedule 2
Travancore evening brown	Parantirrhoea marshalli		Schedule 2, Endemic

Dusky diadem, Ethope himachala

Zetherini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Yellow kaiser	Penthema lisarda	1	Schedule 2
Dusky diadem	Ethope himachala
Yellow owl	Neorina hilda		Schedule 2
White owl	Neorina patria	1	Schedule 2

Common wall, Lasiommata schakra

Tamil treebrown, Lethe drypetis

Bamboo treebrown, Lethe europa

Common treebrown, Lethe rohria

Straight-banded treebrown, Lethe verma

White-edged bushbrown, Telinga mestra

Chinese bushbrown, Mycalesis gotama

Gladeye bushbrown, Mycalesis patnia

Common bushbrown, Mycalesis perseus

Dark-brand bushbrown, Mycalesis mineus

Long-brand bushbrown, Mycalesis visala

Tamil catseye, Zipaetis saitis

Dark catseye, Zipaetis scylax

Common satyr, Aulocera saraswati

Common threering, Ypthima asterope

White fourring, Ypthima ceylonica

Nilgiri fourring, Ypthima chenu

Moore's fivering, Ypthima nikaea

Himalayan fivering, Ypthima sakra

Nilgiri jewel fourring, Ypthima striata

Common argus, Callerebia nirmala

Indian fivering, Ypthima tabella

Pallid argus, Callerebia scanda

Satyrini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Narrow-banded wall	Chonala albistricta
Chumbi wall	Chonala masoni
Yellow wall	Esperage cashmirensis
Scarce wall	Lasiommata maerula	1	Schedule 2
Ladakh wall	Lasiommata maeroides
Dark wall	Lasiommata menava	1	Schedule 1
Pakistan wall	Lasiommata pakistana
Common wall	Lasiommata schakra	1
Tigerbrown	Orinoma damaris	1
Small tawny wall	Orinoma moorei	2
Large tawny wall	Orinoma satricus	2	Schedule 2
Anderson's silverstripe	Lethe andersoni
Small goldenfork	Lethe atkinsonia		Schedule 2
Treble silverstripe	Lethe baladeva		Schedule 2
Rusty forester	Lethe bhairava
Dark forester	Lethe brisanda		Schedule 2
Angled red forester	Lethe chandica	1
Banded treebrown	Lethe confusa	1
Garwhal woodbrown	Lethe dakwania
Scarce lilacfork	Lethe dura	1	Schedule 1
Scarce red forester	Lethe distans		Schedule 1, Schedule 2
Tamil treebrown	Lethe drypetis	1
Eastern small silverfork	Lethe elwesi
Bamboo treebrown	Lethe europa	4	Schedule 1, Schedule 2
Tytler's treebrown	Flavolethe gemina	1	Schedule 1
Large goldenfork	Zophoessa goalpara	3	Schedule 2
Dull forester	Lethe gulnihal	1	Schedule 1
Common forester	Lethe hyrania	2
Small silverfork	Lethe jalaurida	1	Schedule 2
Manipur goldenfork	Lethe kabrua		Schedule 2
Manipur woodbrown	Zophoessa kanjupkula		Schedule 2
Bamboo forester	Lethe kansa	1
Pale forester	Lethe latiaris	1	Schedule 2
Barred woodbrown	Zophoessa maitrya	1
Bhutan treebrown	Lethe margaritae		Schedule 1
Common red forester	Lethe mekara	2
Möller's silverfork	Zophoessa moelleri	1	Schedule 2
Naga treebrown	Lethe naga	1	Schedule 2
Yellow woodbrown	Zophoessa nicetas
Small woodbrown	Zophoessa nicetella		Schedule 2
Single silverstripe	Lethe ramadeva		Schedule 1
Common treebrown	Lethe rohria	2
Pallid forester	Lethe satyavati		Schedule 1
Blue forester	Lethe scanda		Schedule 2
Brown forester	Lethe serbonis	1	Schedule 2
Scarce woodbrown	Zophoessa siderea		Schedule 2
Common woodbrown	Lethe sidonis
Tailed red forester	Lethe sinorix	1	Schedule 2
Lilacfork	Lethe sura
Spotted mystic	Lethe tristigmata		Schedule 2
Straight-banded treebrown	Lethe verma	2
Black forester	Lethe vindhya	1
White-edged woodbrown	Lethe visrava		Schedule 2
Tibetan silverfork	Lethe wui
Chinese labyrinth	Neope armandii	1
Tailed labyrinth	Neope bhadra
Veined labyrinth	Neope pulaha	2	Schedule 2
Scarce labyrinth	Neope pulahina
Large veined labyrinth	Neope pulahoides	1
Dusky labyrinth	Neope yama	2	Schedule 2
Redeye bushbrown	Telinga adolphei
Betham's bushbrown	Telinga bethami		Endemic
Palni bushbrown	Telinga davisoni		Endemic
Moore's bushbrown	Telinga heri		Schedule 2
Naga bushbrown	Telinga kohimensis
Lepcha bushbrown	Telinga lepcha		Schedule 2
White-line bushbrown	Telinga malsara
Plain bushbrown	Telinga malsarida		Schedule 2
White-edged bushbrown	Telinga mestra	1	Schedule 2
De Nicéville's bushbrown	Telinga misenus	1	Schedule 2
Many-tufted bushbrown	Telinga mystes		Schedule 2
Bright-eyed bushbrown	Telinga nicotia
Red-disc bushbrown	Telinga oculus		Endemic
Cyclops bushbrown	Culapa mnasicles	1
Andaman bushbrown	Mydosama radza		Endemic
Watson's bushbrown	Mycalesis adamsonii	1	Schedule 2
Tawny bushbrown	Mycalesis anapita	1
Whitebar bushbrown	Mycalesis anaxias	2	Schedule 2
Tytler's bushbrown	Mycalesis evansii
Lilacine bushbrown	Mycalesis francisca	2
Chinese bushbrown	Mycalesis gotama	1	Schedule 2
Small long-brand bushbrown	Mycalesis igilia
Intermediate bushbrown	Mycalesis intermedia
Nicobar bushbrown	Mycalesis manii		Endemic
Dark-brand bushbrown	Mycalesis mineus	3
Purple bushbrown	Mycalesis orseis	1	Schedule 1
Gladeye bushbrown	Mycalesis patnia	1
Pachmari bushbrown	Mycalesis perseoides
Common bushbrown	Mycalesis perseus	2
Wood-Mason's bushbrown	Mycalesis suaveolens	3	Schedule 2
Long-brand bushbrown	Mycalesis visala	3
Scarce catseye	Coelites nothis	1	Schedule 1
Common cyclops	Erites falcipennis
Smooth-eyed bushbrown	Orsotriaena medus	3
Tamil catseye	Zipaetis saitis		Schedule 2, Endemic
Dark catseye	Zipaetis scylax
Striped ringlet	Ragadia crisilda	2	Schedule 2
Ladakh heath	Coenonympha emmonsi
Short-branded meadowbrown	Hyponephele brevistigma
Branded meadowbrown	Hyponephele cheena	3
Spotted meadowbrown	Hyponephele coenonympha
White-ringed meadowbrown	Hyponephele davendra	1	Schedule 2
Pamir meadowbrown	Hyponephele hilaris
Tawny meadowbrown	Hyponephele pulchella
Dusky meadowbrown	Hyponephele pulchra	5
Lesser white-ringed meadowbrown	Hyponephele tenuistigma	1
White-edged rockbrown	Hipparchia parisatis	2
Chitrali satyr	Kanetisa digna
Bicolor mountain satyr	Aulocera bicolor
Small satyr	Aulocera brahminoides
Narrow-banded satyr	Aulocera brahminus	3
Chumbi satyr	Aulocera chumbica	2
Gilgit satyr	Aulocera gilgitica
Eastern satyr	Aulocera kurogane
Doherty's satyr	Aulocera loha	2
Great satyr	Aulocera padma	4
Mountain satyr	Aulocera pumilus	1
Striated satyr	Aulocera saraswati	2
Sikkim mountain satyr	Aulocera sikkimensis
Common satyr	Aulocera swaha	2
Zanskar satyr	Aulocera tsukadai
Avinoff's satyr	Karanasa alpherakyi
Turkestan satyr	Karanasa bolorica	2
Tawny satyr	Karanasa huebneri	7
Leech's satyr	Karanasa leechi	1
Shandur satyr	Karanasa moorei	2
Drosh satyr	Karanasa pupilata
Rohtang satyr	Karanasa rohtanga
Tibetan satyr	Oeneis buddha	1	Schedule 2
Dark rockbrown	Chazara enervata
Shandur rockbrown	Chazara heydenreichi		Schedule 2
Spiti rockbrown	Pseudochazara baldiva	4
Tytler's rockbrown	Pseudochazara droshica
Dark satyr	Satyrus alaica
Black satyr	Satyrus pimpla	1
Khasi fivering	Ypthima affectata
Common threering	Ypthima asterope	1
Black fivering	Ypthima atra	1
Jewel fivering	Ypthima avanta	2
Common fivering	Ypthima baldus	3
Desert fourring	Ypthima bolanica		Schedule 2
White fourring	Ypthima ceylonica
Nilgiri fourring	Ypthima chenu		Endemic
Confusing threering	Ypthima confusa	1
Davidson's fivering	Ypthima davidsoni
Great fivering	Ypthima dohertyi	1
Assam threering	Ypthima fusca
Hannyngton's fourring	Ypthima hannyngtoni	1
Common fourring	Ypthima huebneri
Brown argus	Ypthima hyagriva	1	Schedule 2
Western fivering	Ypthima indecora
Lesser threering	Ypthima inica
Kashmir fourring	Ypthima kasmira
Plain threering	Ypthima lycus	1	Schedule 2
Menpa fivering	Ypthima menpae
Variegated fivering	Ypthima methora		Schedule 2
Large threering	Ypthima nareda
Newar threering	Ypthima newara	1
Moore's fivering	Ypthima nikaea
Burmese threering	Ypthima norma	1
Himalayan fourring	Ypthima parasakra
Manipur fivering	Ypthima persimilis		Schedule 1
Baby fivering	Ypthima philomela	1
Himalayan fivering	Ypthima sakra	2
Pallid fivering	Ypthima savara
Eastern fivering	Ypthima similis		Schedule 2
Small jewel fivering	Ypthima singala	1
Karen fivering	Ypthima sobrina
Nilgiri jewel fourring	Ypthima striata		Endemic
Indian fivering	Ypthima tabella		Endemic
Taiwan fourring	Ypthima tappana	1
Looped threering	Ypthima watsoni	1
Palni fourring	Ypthima ypthimoides		Endemic
Chitral argus	Paralasa chitralica	1
Scarce mountain argus	Paralasa kalinda	4	Schedule 2
Yellow argus	Paralasa mani	2	Schedule 2
Mountain argus	Paralasa shallada	1
Yasin argus	Paralasa yasina
Ringed argus	Callerebia annada	2	Schedule 2
White-bordered argus	Callerebia baileyi
Roy's argus	Callerebia dibangensis
Hybrid argus	Callerebia hybrida
Common argus	Callerebia nirmala	3
Moore's argus	Callerebia orixa
Pallid argus	Callerebia scanda	2	Schedule 2
Manipur argus	Callerebia suroia
Naga argus	Callerebia watsoni
Mottled argus	Hemadara narasingha	1	Schedule 1

Freak, Calinaga buddha

Calinaginae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Dark freak	Calinaga aborica	2
Common freak	Calinaga brahma	1
Freak	Calinaga buddha	2	Schedule 1, Schedule 2

Heliconiinae

Tawny coster, Acraea terpsicore

Acraeini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tawny coster	Acraea terpsicore
Yellow coster	Telchinia issoria	1

Red lacewing, Cethosia biblis

Cethosiini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Red lacewing	Cethosia biblis	3	Schedule 2
Leopard lacewing	Cethosia cyane	1
Tamil lacewing	Cethosia nietneri	1	Schedule 2

Queen of Spain fritillary, Issoria lathonia

Indian fritillary, Argynnis hyperbius

Cardinal, Argynnis pandora

Argynnini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Whitespot fritillary	Boloria erubescens
Hunza silverspot	Boloria generator
Jerdon's silverspot	Boloria jerdoni	1
Sikkim silverspot	Boloria eupales
Straightwing silverspot	Boloria sipora	1
Mountain silverspot	Issoria altissima		Schedule 2
Gem silverspot	Issoria gemmata
Queen of Spain fritillary	Issoria lathonia	1	Schedule 2
Dark green fritillary	Argynnis aglaja	1
Large silverstreak	Argynnis childreni	2
Silverstreak	Argynnis clara	2	Schedule 2
Indian fritillary	Argynnis hyperbius	3
Himalayan highbrown silverspot	Argynnis jainadeva	2	Schedule 2
Common silverstripe	Argynnis kamala
Eastern silverstripe	Argynnis laodice	1
Cardinal	Argynnis pandora	1
Yunnan fritillary	Argynnis westphali

Small leopard, Phalanta alcippe

Common leopard, Phalanta phalantha

Vagrantini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Small leopard	Phalanta alcippe	4	Schedule 2
Common leopard	Phalanta phalantha	1
Cruiser	Vindula erota	3
Large yeoman	Cirrochroa aoris	1
Nicobar yeoman	Cirrochroa nicobarica		Endemic
Tamil yeoman	Cirrochroa thais	1
Common yeoman	Cirrochroa tyche	2
Branded yeoman	Algia fasciata	1	Schedule 1
Rustic	Cupha erymanthis	4
Vagrant	Vagrans sinha	1

Limenitidinae

Parthenini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Clipper	Parthenos sylvia	4	Schedule 2

Grey commodore, Bhagadatta austenia

Cymothoini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Grey commodore	Bhagadatta austenia	2	Schedule 2

Blue duke, Euthalia durga

Gaudy baron, Euthalia lubentina

Common earl, Tanaecia julii

Adoliadini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Common baron	Euthalia aconthea	5	Schedule 2
Streaked baron	Euthalia alpheda	1
Grey baron	Euthalia anosia	1	Schedule 2
Chinese duke	Euthalia confucius	1
Naga duke	Euthalia curvifascia	1	Schedule 1
Blue duchess	Euthalia duda	1	Schedule 2
Blue duke	Euthalia durga	2	Schedule 1
French duke	Euthalia franciae		Schedule 2
Grand duke	Euthalia iva	1	Schedule 1
Tytler's duchess	Euthalia lengba	1
Gaudy baron	Euthalia lubentina	2
Malay red baron	Euthalia malaccana	1
Dark baron	Euthalia merta	1	Schedule 2
Powdered baron	Euthalia monina	1
Baronet	Euthalia nais
Bronze duke	Euthalia nara	1	Schedule 2
Burmese baron	Euthalia narayana	1
Grand duchess	Euthalia patala	1	Schedule 2
White-edged blue baron	Euthalia phemius	1
Green duke	Euthalia sahadeva
Mottled baron	Euthalia saitaphernes	1
Blue baron	Euthalia telchinia	1	Schedule 1
Tytler's duke	Euthalia thawgawa
Tibetan duke	Euthalia zhaxidunzhui
Basar duke	Euthalia zubeengargi		Endemic
Andaman viscount	Tanaecia cibaritis		Endemic
Lavender count	Tanaecia cocytus	1	Schedule 2
Plain earl	Tanaecia jahnu
Common earl	Tanaecia julii	1
Grey count	Tanaecia lepidea	2	Schedule 2
Redspot duke	Dophla evelina	2	Schedule 2
Great archduke	Lexias cyanipardus	1	Schedule 2
Dark archduke	Lexias dirtea	1	Schedule 2
Archduke	Lexias pardalis	1	Schedule 2
Redtail marquis	Bassarona recta	1
Banded marquis	Bassarona teuta	2	Schedule 2
Sergeant-major	Abrota ganga	1

Common sergeant, Athyma perius

White commodore, Limenitis dudu

Staff sergeant, Athyma selenophora

Limenitidini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Great sergeant	Tacola larymna	1	Schedule 2
Commodore	Auzakia danava	1	Schedule 2
Panther	Neurosigma siva	1	Schedule 2
Commander	Moduza procris	3
Orange staff sergeant	Athyma cama	1
Green commodore	Athyma daraxa	1
Dot-dash sergeant	Athyma kanwa	1	Schedule 2
Tri-coloured sergeant	Athyma inara	2
Hill sergeant	Athyma opalina	1
Oriental sergeant	Athyma orientalis	1
Common sergeant	Athyma perius	1
Unbroken sergeant	Athyma pravara	1	Schedule 2
White-patched sergeant	Athyma punctata	1
Blackvein sergeant	Athyma ranga	2	Schedule 2
Malay staff sergeant	Athyma reta	1	Schedule 1
Andaman sergeant	Athyma rufula		Endemic
Staff sergeant	Athyma selenophora	3
Cryptic sergeant	Athyma whitei	1
Tibetan sergeant	Athyma yui
Small staff sergeant	Athyma zeroca	1
Bicolour commodore	Parasarpa zayla
Scarce white commodore	Parasarpa zulema		Schedule 1
Studded sergeant	Limenitis asura	1	Schedule 2
White commodore	Limenitis dudu	1	Schedule 2
Chitral white admiral	Limenitis hydaspes	2
Bhutan sergeant	Limenitis jina	1	Schedule 1
Kashmir white admiral	Limenitis ligyes	1
Mishmi admiral	Limenitis rileyi	1
Indian white admiral	Limenitis trivena	2

Knight, Lebadea martha

Common lascar, Pantoporia hordonia

Sullied sailer, Neptis clinia

Common sailer, Neptis hylas

Pallas's sailer, Neptis sappho

Neptini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Knight	Lebadea martha	1
Assamese lascar	Pantoporia assamica
Baby lascar	Pantoporia aurelia	1
Tytler's lascar	Pantoporia bieti	1	Schedule 2
Common lascar	Pantoporia hordonia	2
Perak lascar	Pantoporia paraka	1
Extra lascar	Pantoporia sandaka	2
Dark sailer	Lasippa monata
Burmese sailer	Lasippa tiga	1
Yellowjack sailer	Lasippa viraja	3	Schedule 2
Yellow sailer	Neptis ananta	2
Variegated sailer	Neptis armandia	2	Schedule 2
Eliot's sailer	Neptis capnodes	1
Plain sailer	Neptis cartica	1
Sullied sailer	Neptis clinia	4	Schedule 2
Chinese yellow sailer	Neptis cydippe	1	Schedule 2
Dingiest sailer	Neptis harita	1
Common sailer	Neptis hylas	5
Dark dingy sailer	Neptis ilira	1
Chestnut-streaked sailer	Neptis jumbah	2	Schedule 2
Spotted sailer	Neptis magadha	1
Himalayan sailer	Neptis mahendra	1
Pale hockeystick sailer	Neptis manasa	1	Schedule 2
Small yellow sailer	Neptis miah	2
Manipur yellow sailer	Neptis namba	1
Broadstick sailer	Neptis narayana	2	Schedule 2
Less rich sailer	Neptis nashona	1
Nata sailer	Neptis nata	4
Naga hockeystick sailer	Neptis nemorum	1
Hockeystick sailer	Neptis nycteus	1	Schedule 1
Long-streak sailer	Neptis philyra	1	Subspecies not named
Dingy sailer	Neptis pseudovikasi
Great yellow sailer	Neptis radha	1	Schedule 2
Broad-banded sailer	Neptis sankara	2	Schedule 2
Pallas's sailer	Neptis sappho	1
Creamy sailer	Neptis soma	3	Schedule 2
Pale green sailer	Neptis zaida	3	Schedule 2
Great hockeystick sailer	Phaedyma aspasia	1	Schedule 1
Short-banded sailer	Phaedyma columella	3	Schedule 2

Popinjay, Stibochiona nicea

Pseudergolinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tabby	Pseudergolis wedah	1
Constable	Dichorragia nesimachus	1
Popinjay	Stibochiona nicea	1

Biblidinae

Joker, Byblia ilithyia

Biblidini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Angled castor	Ariadne ariadne	2
Common castor	Ariadne merione	2
Banded dandy	Laringa horsfieldii	1
Joker	Byblia ilithyia

Apaturinae

Indian purple emperor, Mimathyma ambica

Pasha, Herona marathus

Siren, Hestina persimilis

Apaturini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Indian purple emperor	Mimathyma ambica	1
Restricted purple emperor	Mimathyma bhavana
Sergeant emperor	Mimathyma chevana	1	Schedule 2
Chitral emperor	Mimathyma chitralensis
Circe	Mimathyma nama
Naga emperor	Chitoria naga
Sordid emperor	Chitoria sordida	1	Schedule 2
Tawny emperor	Chitoria ulupi	1	Schedule 1
Golden emperor	Dilipa morgiana		Schedule 1
Tytler's emperor	Eulaceura manipuriensis		Schedule 1
Black prince	Rohana parisatis	2
Brown prince	Rohana parvata		Schedule 2
Elusive prince	Rohana tonkiniana	1
Painted courtesan	Euripus consimilis	2	Schedule 2
Courtesan	Euripus nyctelius	1	Schedule 2
White emperor	Helcyra hemina	1	Schedule 1
Pasha	Herona marathus	2	Schedule 2
Scarce siren	Hestina nicevillei	2	Schedule 1
Siren	Hestina persimilis	1	Schedule 2
Empress	Sasakia funebris	1	Schedule 1
Eastern courtier	Sephisa chandra	1	Schedule 1
Western courtier	Sephisa dichroa

Wavy maplet, Chersonesia intermedia

Cyrestinae

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Marbled map	Cyrestis cocles	1	Schedule 2
Nicobar map	Cyrestis tabula		Endemic
Common map	Cyrestis thyodamas	4
Wavy maplet	Chersonesia intermedia	1	Schedule 2
Common maplet	Chersonesia risa	1

Nymphalinae

Mongol, Araschnia prorsoides

Painted lady, Vanessa cardui

Blue admiral, Nymphalis canace

Nymphalini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Mongol	Araschnia prorsoides	1	Schedule 2
Himalayan jester	Symbrenthia brabira	1
Naga jester	Symbrenthia doni
Spotted jester	Symbrenthia hypselis	1
Common jester	Symbrenthia lilaea	1
Bluetail jester	Symbrenthia niphanda		Schedule 2
Scarce jester	Symbrenthia silana		Schedule 1
Red admiral	Vanessa atalanta	1
Painted lady	Vanessa cardui
Indian red admiral	Vanessa indica	2
Comma	Nymphalis c-album	1	Schedule 2
Blue admiral	Nymphalis canace	1
Indian tortoiseshell	Nymphalis caschmirensis	2
Comma tortoiseshell	Nymphalis l-album	1	Schedule 2
Ladakh tortoiseshell	Nymphalis ladakensis
Blackleg tortoiseshell	Nymphalis polychloros
Mountain tortoiseshell	Nymphalis rizana
Pamir comma	Nymphalis undina
Large tortoiseshell	Nymphalis xanthomelas	1

Rhinopalpini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Wizard	Rhinopalpa polynice	1	Schedule 2

Peacock pansy, Junonia almana

Junoniini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Peacock pansy	Junonia almana	2
Grey pansy	Junonia atlites	1
Yellow pansy	Junonia hierta	1
Chocolate pansy	Junonia iphita	2
Lemon pansy	Junonia lemonias	1
Blue pansy	Junonia orithya	1
Lurcher	Yoma sabina	1
Malayan eggfly	Hypolimnas anomala	1
Great eggfly	Hypolimnas bolina	1
Danaid eggfly	Hypolimnas misippus		Schedule 2

Orange oakleaf, Kallima inachus

Kallimini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Andaman oakleaf	Kallima albofasciata		Schedule 2, Endemic
Southern blue oakleaf	Kallima horsfieldii		Schedule 2, Endemic
Orange oakleaf	Kallima inachus	2
Cryptic oakleaf	Kallima incognita
Scarce blue oakleaf	Kallima knyvettii		Schedule 2

Autumn leaf, Doleschallia bisaltide

Doleschalliaini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Autumn leaf	Doleschallia bisaltide	3	Schedule 2

Melitaeini

Common name	Binomial name	Subspecies (in India)	Comments
Tytler's fritillary	Melitaea balbina
Chitral fritillary	Melitaea chitralensis
Fiery fritillary	Melitaea fergana
Pamir fritillary	Melitaea mixta	1
Tien-Shan fritillary	Melitaea pallas
Lesser spotted fritillary	Melitaea robertsi
Shandur fritillary	Melitaea shandura
Blackvein fritillary	Melitaea sindura	5

Regional lists

India has 28 states and 8 union territories. The list of butterflies for each state can be found using the index below:

States

• Andhra Pradesh
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Assam
• Bihar
• Chhattisgarh
• Goa
• Gujarat
• Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh
• Jharkhand
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• Madhya Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Manipur
• Meghalaya
• Mizoram
• Nagaland
• Odisha
• Punjab
• Rajasthan
• Sikkim
• Tamil Nadu
• Telangana
• Tripura
• Uttar Pradesh
• Uttarakhand
• West Bengal

Union territories

• Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Chandigarh
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
• Delhi
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Ladakh
• Lakshadweep
• Pondicherry

Non state-wise lists

The following non state-wise lists of butterflies can be found using the index below:

• List of butterflies of the Western Ghats