Question

obtain information about the diversity of butterflies

Answer 1

Butterflies which are believed to have existed before man are duirnal group of insects of order lepidoptera under the phylum anthropoda  which comprises of about 16500 species .
In Uganda there are about 1245 species of butterflies endowed with a variety of wing colour pattern.the butterflies of Uganda belong to 2 super families namely :Papilionoidea  (true butterflies) and Hesperidia (skippers).
Family Papilionoidea-swallow tails Family Pieridae-whites and yellowFamily Lycaenidae -small to medium sized butterfliesFamily Nymphalidae-four footed butterfliesFamily Satyrinae-brown and ringletsFamily Danainae-milk weed butterflies/DanaidsFamily Charaxinae-large and beautiful with extremely powerful wings Family Nmypalinae-nymphlidsFamily Acraeinae-acraeas