page_title: List of butterflies of Nepal
section_title: Subfamily Heliconiinae
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Nepal / Family Nymphalidae - nymphalids / Subfamily Heliconiinae
caption_attribution_description: English: Common leopard (Phalanta phalantha) Lumbini, Nepal. Focus stack of 7 images.
context_page_description: The following is a list of butterflies of Nepal. Six hundred and sixty-nine species and thirty subspecies are listed.
  This list is primarily based on Colin Smith's 2006 Illustrated Checklist of Nepal's Butterflies, with some recent additions and a modernized classification. Scientific and common names are also from that book. The 27 endemic species or subspecies are marked.
context_section_description: Acraea violae - tawny coster
  Acraea issoria - yellow coster
  Cethosia biblis tisamena - red lacewing
  Cethosia cyane - leopard lacewing
  Cupha erymanthis lotis - rustic
  Vagrans egista - vagrant
  Vindula erota erota - cruiser
  Cirrochroa aoris aoris - large yeoman
  Cirrochroa tyche mithila - common yeoman
  Phalanta phalantha phalantha - common leopard
  Argynnis hyperbius hyperbius - Indian fritillary
  Argynnis childreni - large silverstripe
  Argynnis childreni childreni (endemic)
  Argynnis childreni sakontala (endemic)
  Fabriciana kamala - common silverstripe
  Fabriciana adippe jaindeva - highbrown silverspot
  Speyeria clara - silverstreak
  Speyeria clara clara
  Speyeria clara shieldsi
  Issoria lathonia - Queen of Spain fritillary (endemic)
  Issoria annapurnae - Annapurna silverspot
  Issoria mackinnonii - Mackinnon's silverspot
  Issoria gemmata - gem silverspot
caption: Common leopard
  Phalanta phalantha
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