author(s)
Deepshikha Buragohain, Bakhtiar Hussain and Biswajit Kumar Acharjee

abstract
The study has been carried was out in the vicinity of IIT Guwahati campus from June 2016 to May 2017 to ascertain the number of butterfly species present. In the present study, a total number of 54 species of butterflies belonging to 6 (six) families were reported. Among various families of butterflies found, Nymphalidae family was represented by 22 species followed by 10 species of Lycaenidae, 9 species of Pieridae, 5 species of Papilionoidae, 6 species of Hesperidae and Riodinidae family was represented by 2 species. This study is a preliminary study undertaken at the proposed site which can be regarded as one of the significant taxonomical work.