List of butterflies of Chandigarh

This is a list of butterfly species found in the union territory of Chandigarh in India.

Chocolate pansy, Butterfly Park, Sector 26, Chandigarh

## Milkweed butterflies (Danainae)

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Source:[1][2]

* Tirumala limniace (blue tiger)
* Danaus genutia (common tiger)
* Danaus chrysippus (plain tiger)
* Euploea core (common Indian crow)
* Melanitis leda (common evening brown)

## Satyrs or browns (Satyrinae)

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* Mycalesis perseus (common bushbrown)
* Mycalesis mineus (dark-branded bushbrown)
* Ypthima baldus (common fivering)
* Ypthima asterope (common threering)

## Brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae)

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Common map on a marigold bloom, Butterfly Garden, Sector 26, Chandigarh

* Phalanta phalantha (common leopard)
* Ariadne merione (common castor)
* Ariadne ariadne (angled castor)
* Acraea violae (tawny coster)
* Junonia lemonias (lemon pansy)
* Junonia almana (peacock pansy)
* Junonia atlites (grey pansy)
* Junonia iphita (chocolate pansy)
* Vanessa cardui (painted lady)
* Vanessa indica (Indian red admiral)
* Argynnis hyperbius (Indian fritillary)
* Precis hierta (yellow pansy)
* Junonia orithya (blue pansy)
* Neptis hylas (common sailer)
* Cyrestis thyodamas (common map)
* Libythea myrrha (club beak)
* Athyma selenophora (staff sergeant)

## Gossamerwings (Lycaenidae)

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Common silverline, Saketri, Chandigarh

* Talicada nyseus (red Pierrot)
* Castalius rosimon (common Pierrot)
* Azanus ubaldus (bright babul blue)
* Freyeria trochylus (grass jewel)
* Lampides boeticus (pea blue)
* Cigaritis vulcanus (common silverline)
* Virachola isocrates (common guava blue)
* Leptotes plinius (zebra blue)
* Zizeeria maha (pale grass blue)

## Whites and sulphurs (Pieridae)

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* Delias eucharis (common Jezebel)
* Pontia daplidice (Bath white)
* Belenois aurota (pioneer white)
* Gonepteryx rhamni (common brimstone)
* Eurema blanda (three-spot grass yellow)
* Catopsilia crocale (common emigrant)
* Catopsilia pyranthe (mottled emigrant)
* Ixias marianne (white orange tip)
* Ixias pyrene (yellow orange tip)
* Colias croceus (dark clouded yellow
* Pieris brassicae (Indian large cabbage white)[3]
* Pieris canidia (Indian cabbage white)

## Swallowtails (Papilionidae)

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* Papilio polytes (common Mormon)
* Papilio demoleus (lime butterfly)
* Graphium doson (common jay)

## Skippers (Hesperiidae)

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The Indian skipper butterfly spotted in Botanical Garden, Chandigarh Small branded swift taken at Chandigarh

* Spialia galba (Indian skipper)
* Baoris guttatus bada (straight swift)
* Pelopidas mathias (small branded swift )

## References

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1. ^ Kunte, K., S. Kalesh and U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). 2012. Butterflies of India. v. 1.05. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
2. ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
3. ^ Pieris brassicae by Navtej Singh at Panjab University, Chandigarh