planned outline about diversity of butterflies
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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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