Question

Obtain information about the diversity of butterflies and stick pictures.

Answer 1

Hint: Butterflies are one of the most beautiful insects found on Planet Earth. There are about two hundred and fifty thousand of species known Butterflies are insects from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large and brightly colored wings. They are considered to be colorful insects.

Complete answer:
Butterflies are believed to have existed before man. They are a diurnal group of insects. It belongs to the order Lepidoptera under the phylum Arthropoda which is the largest phylum. It comprises about 16500 species.

In Uganda, there are about more than 1245 species of butterflies enriched with a variety of wing color patterns. The butterflies of Uganda show a group of great diversification and mainly comprises two superfamilies. These families are Papilionoidea (true butterflies) and Hesperidin (skippers).

Family Papilionidae - Swallowtails.
Family Pieridae - Whites and yellow.
Family Lycaenidae - Small to medium-sized butterflies.
Family Nymphalidae - Four footed butterflies.
Family Satyrinae - Brown and ringlets.
Family Danaidae - Milkweed butterflies/Danaids.
Family Charaxinae - Large and beautiful with extremely powerful wings.
Family Nopalina - Nymphalids.
Family Acraeinae - Acraea.

Diagram shows diversity in butterflies. They show diverse nature in morphology as well as in anatomical features. They have colorful wings.

Note: Butterflies are one of the most attractive insects in the world which have received a reasonable amount of attention throughout the world. The butterflies of Howrah district, West Bengal, India comprises 106 species including 75 genera and 6 families. Out of these 6 families, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae were found to be the most dominant. During our studies, we found Grass Jewel, the smallest butterfly in India, and The Blue Mormon, the largest butterfly of South West Bengal as well as the second-largest in India.