author(s)
Jayasri Medhi, Jonali Barman and Suraj Sharma

abstract
Butterflies are brilliantly coloured scaly winged insects of order Lepidoptera and one of the most essential indicator species for conservation of biodiversity. A short term survey was conducted for a period of six months in the Tegheria, Khetri in order to study the diversity of butterflies. The major objective of this survey is to develop an organized checklist of butterflies along with adding a preliminary note on their, status and conservation priorities within the study area. During the course of this survey a total of 725 individuals and 65 species of butterflies represented by 48 genera belonging to 6 families were recorded. It was observed that family Nymphalidae is the most dominating family in the study area representing 27 species with 414 individuals during the survey. Hesperidae and Lycanidae was the second most dominant family with 13 species followed by Papilonidae 6 species, Pieridae 5 species and Riodinidae with 1 species. Out of 65 species reported here Sub species of 11 species were found to be included under Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.