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This is a tentative list of butterfly species and subspecies found in Sikkim , an Indian state in northeast India.
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Tribe: Leptocircini
Subspecies: Graphium cloanthus cloanthus (Himalayan glassy bluebottle)
Tribe: Papilionini
Subspecies: Papilio bianor ganesa (east Himalayan common peacock)
Subspecies: Papilio helenus helenus (Oriental red Helen)
Subspecies: Papilio nephelus chaon (Khasi yellow Helen)
Tribe: Pierini
Subspecies: Delias agostina agostina (Sikkim yellow Jezebel)
Subspecies: Pieris canidia indica (Indian cabbage white)
Tribe: Miletini
Subspecies: Allotinus drumila drumila (Himalayan Crenulate Mottle)
Tribe: Polyommatini
Subspecies: Acytolepis puspa gisca (Himalayan common hedge blue)
Subspecies: Jamides alecto eurysaces (Himalayan metallic cerulean)
Tribe: Hypolycaenini
Subspecies: Hypolycaena kina kina (Darjeeling blue tit)
Tribe: Acraeini
Tribe: Adoliadini
Subspecies: bassarona durga durga (Himalayan blue duke)
Subspecies: Tanaecia julii appiades (changeable common earl)
Tribe: Limenitidini
Subspecies: Athyma jina jina (sullied Bhutan sergeant)
Tribe: Junoniini
Tribe: Nymphalini
Subspecies: Aglais caschmirensis aesis (Himalayan tortoiseshell)
Tribe: Pseudergolini
Tribe: Elymniini
Subspecies: Elymnias malelas malelas (Bengal spotted palmfly)
Tribe: Satyrini
Subspecies: Lethe verma sintica (east Himalayan straight-banded treebrown)
Tribe: Abisarini
Subspecies: Abisara chela chela (Sikkim spot Judy)
Tribe: Nemeobiini
Subspecies: Zemeros flegyas flegyas (Himalayan Punchinello)
Tribe: Aeromachini
Subspecies: Zographetus ogygia ogygia (continental purple-spotted flitter)
Tribe: Baorini
Subspecies: Polytremis eltola eltola (Darjeeling yellow-spot swift)
Tribe: Taractrocerini
Tribe: Tagiadini
Subspecies: Tagiades menaka menaka (Bengal spotted snow flat)
Papilio helenus, the red Helen, is a large swallowtail butterfly found in forests of southern India and parts of southeast Asia.
Spialia galba, the Indian grizzled skipper, is a hesperiid butterfly which is found in South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.
Tagiades litigiosa, the water snow flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Papilio paris, the Paris peacock(Myanmar name: ဒေါင်းစိမ်းလိပ်ပြာ), is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia.
Papilio buddha, the Malabar banded peacock, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in the Western Ghats of India. The Government of Kerala declared it as the official Kerala state butterfly.
Cheritra freja, the common imperial, is a small butterfly found in India, Myanmar, Malaysia and Sri Lanka that belongs to the gossamer-winged butterflies family (Lycaenidae).
Aulocera brahminus, the narrow-banded satyr, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas. The species was first described by Émile Blanchard in 1853.
Aulocera brahminoides is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas.
Papilio phorcas, the apple-green swallowtail or green-banded swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Africa.
Tagiades menaka, commonly known as the spotted snow flat or the dark-edged snow flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It contains three subspecies.
Tagiades parra is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the genus Tagiades. It is found from Sikkim and Assam to Indochina and all throughout maritime Southeast Asia. The species was first described by the German entomologist Hans Fruhstorfer in 1910 as a subspecies of Tagiades gana. The type specimens were collected from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The species name is from Latin parra, a supernatural bird bringing ill omen.
Elymnias malelas, the spotted palmfly, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in northern India and Indochina in the Indomalayan realm.
Zographetus ogygia, the purple spotted flitter, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.