Species and Fauna Analysis of Butterflies in Nanlihu National Wetland Park of Hainan

Key words: 
• butterfly,diversity /
• fauna /
• Nanlihu National Wetland Park of Hainan Province /

Abstract: A survey was made of diversity of butterflies in Nanlihu National Wetland Park of Hainan Province from May to October 2016,and recorded were 45 species,32 genera and 7 families including Papi Iionidae,Danaidae,Nymphalidae,Satyridae,Lycaenidae,Pieridae and Hesperiidae.Family Papilionidae has 11 species and is the most diverse group,followed by Nymphalidae,and Hesperiidae is the last with only one species.Fauna analysis showed that numerous species of butterflies were cosmopolitan in the Nanlihu National Wetland Park,dominated by the species of East Palaearctic realm + Oriental realms in the world zoogeographic regions.Among the 45 species,32 species were distributed both in the East Palaearctic region and the Oriental region,accounting for 71.11%,and there were 8 different distribution patterns in the zoogeographic regions of China,dominated by the species distributed in the Jianghuai-Central China-Eastern China-Southern China regions（33.3%）and in the Central China-Eastern China-Southern China regions（24.44%）.