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planned outline about diversity of butterflies

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Answered by anjali962
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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 yellow

Family Lycaenidae  - Small to medium sized butterflies

Family Nymphalidae - Four footed butterflies

Family Satyrinae - Brown and ringlets

Family Danainae - Milk weed butterflies/Danaids

Family Charaxinae -  Large and beautiful with extremely powerful wings 

Family Nmypalinae - Nymphlids

Family Acraeinae - Acraeas 

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