The research branch of the Uttarakhand Forest Department has set up the State's first butterfly gallery at the Nature ...

They make up a distinctive family called the Hesperiidae. Several features set ... Smaller than the average butterfly, most are not brightly colored. They wear tones of brownish orange, black ...

experts have identified butterfly species from across six families: 21 from Papilionidae, 66 from Hesperiidae, 26 from Pieridae, 2 from Riodinidae, 85 from Nymphalidae, and 73 from Lycaenidae.