Institutional Green Spaces as Butterfly Refugia: A Preliminary Checklist from Tinsukia College, Assam, India
Abstract
This study provides a preliminary checklist of butterfly diversity recorded from the Tinsukia College Campus, Tinsukia, Northeast, Assam. A continuous survey was carried out over three months, from February, 2025 to April, 2025, during college hours using the Checklist Survey Method (Royer et al., 1998). A total of 40butterfly species belonging to six different families were recorded in the study. Among these, family Nymphalidae was found to be the most dominant (20 species), followed by Pieridae (8species), Papillionidae (7 species), Lycaenidae (6species), while Riodinidae and Hesperidae were each represented by a single species. The results indicate a significant species richness within the college campus and reflect the presence of a relatively healthy habitat capable of supporting diverse lepidopteran fauna.
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