Abstract
A survey was conducted to record the diversity, status, and occurrence of butterfly species in the Kuvempu University Campus, Jnana Sahyadri, Shivamogga District, Karnataka during February 2010 to January 2011. A total of 115 species of butterflies in 77 genera, belonging to five families were recorded. Nymphalidae comprised the highest number of species, followed by Lycaenidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae, and Hesperiidae. The study area hosts 14 species of butterflies protected under various schedules of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Nine species recorded are endemic to the Western Ghats of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Hence there is an urgent need to protect this habitat by adapting long-term monitoring programs to manage and conserve the butterfly diversity.
Highlights
Northern Western Ghats (Gaonkar 1996)
Three-hundred-and-seventeen species have been recorded from the southern Western Ghats, 316 from the central Western Ghats and 200 from the Material and Methods Study Area
The status of butterflies based on frequency of occurrence revealed that 52 species were common (45% of total), 23 rare (20%), 22 very common (19%), 11 very rare (10%), and 7 occasional (6%) (Tables 1,2)
Summary
Northern Western Ghats (Gaonkar 1996). The diversity of butterflies in a given area reflects the overall plant diversity and the presence of suitable habitats (Kakati 2006), making them good indicators of health of the ecosystems (Padhye et al 2006) that can be used to assess the impact of various threats (Gaonkar 1996; Kunte 2000, 2008; Kehimkar 2008) and formulating conservation priorities for management of biodiversity. J TT Butterfly fauna at Kuvempu University Campus The seasonality of butterflies in the campus was compared with trends available in other studies of Western Ghats, from Peringome Vayakkara Panchayath, Kerala (Sneha 2018) to see the variation in this forest type.
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