page_title: List of Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago
hierarchical_section_title: List of Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte des Chagos-Archipels im Indischen Ozean. English: Map of Chagos-Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
context_page_description: Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 tropical islands in the Indian Ocean. The archipelago consists of five emergent atolls, Diego Garcia, Egmont, the Great Chagos Bank, Peros Banhos and Salomon. There are also several submerged atolls and vast banks and shoals. The whole territory covers 54,400 km² of the Indian Ocean, of which the archipelago covers about 37,500 km². The Chagos Archipelago has been British territory since 1814 and was made a dependency of the United Kingdom in 1965.
  According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 63 Lepidoptera species present in the Chagos Archipelago.
context_section_description: Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 tropical islands in the Indian Ocean. The archipelago consists of five emergent atolls, Diego Garcia, Egmont, the Great Chagos Bank, Peros Banhos and Salomon. There are also several submerged atolls and vast banks and shoals. The whole territory covers 54,400 km² of the Indian Ocean, of which the archipelago covers about 37,500 km². The Chagos Archipelago has been British territory since 1814 and was made a dependency of the United Kingdom in 1965.
  According to a recent estimate, there are a total of 63 Lepidoptera species present in the Chagos Archipelago.
caption: The Chagos Archipelago
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