Butterflies of family Pieridae reported from Jammu region (Jammu and Kashmir) of India

Anu Bala, J Tara, Madhvi Gupta, Anu Bala
2014 International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS)   unpublished
The present article incorporates detailed field observations of family Pieridae in Jammu region at different altitudes during spring, summer and autumn seasons of 2012-2013. The study revealed that 13 species of butterflies belonging to 10 genera of family Pieridae exist in the study area. Most members of Family Pieridae are white or yellow. Pieridae is a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species mostly from tropical Africa and Asia.
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