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The Kaiser-i-Hind is a rare species of swallowtail butterfly found from Nepal and north India eastwards to north Vietnam. The common name literally means "Emperor of India", and it is much sought after by butterfly collectors for its beauty and rarity. Kaiser-e-Hind, Teinopalpus imperialis Hope, 1843.
Cyrestis. Species: C. thyodamas. Binomial name. Cyrestis thyodamas. Boisduval, 1836. Cyrestis thyodamas, the common map, [ 1][ 2] is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found in the Indian subcontinent [ 1] and Southeast Asia.
The following is a list of the butterflies of India. India has extremely diverse terrain , climate and vegetation , which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, islands and continental areas, widely varying flora, and sharply marked seasons. [ 1 ]
Aporia crataegi. Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae . A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Papilio brassicae Linnaeus, 1758. Pieris brassicae, the large white, also called cabbage butterfly, cabbage white, cabbage moth (erroneously), or in India the large cabbage white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is a close relative of the small white, Pieris rapae . The large white is common throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia .
Binomial name. Pachliopta aristolochiae. ( Fabricius, 1775) [ 1] Synonyms. Atrophaneura aristolochiae. Pachliopta aristolochiae, the common rose, [ 2][ 3] is a species of swallowtail butterfly belonging to the genus Pachliopta, the roses, or red-bodied swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across south and ...
The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan ), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century.
Green banded white, Pieris krueperi devta ( de Nicéville, 1884) Greenvein white, Pieris napi Linnaeus, 1767. Naga white, Pieris naganum Moore, 1884. Kashmir white, Pieris deota ( de Nicéville, 1884) Large cabbage-white, Pieris brassicae Linnaeus, 1758. Indian cabbage white, Pieris canidia Linnaeus, 1758.