Species list, Checklist of Suborder Glossata (Modern butterflies and moths) for Sigiriya (Matale, Sri Lanka)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Suborder Glossata Fabricius, 1775 (Modern butterflies and moths)
and region Sigiriya (Matale, Sri Lanka)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	17 26 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	17 26 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	14 16 16	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	13 15 15	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Butterflies, Lepidopterans, Moths	6 7 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Glossata Fabricius, 1775 Modern butterflies and moths	6 7 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Sigiriya
6 Families width 7 Species and 1 Subspecies

Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815	Admirals	1	Species	Taxom
Papilionidae Latreille, 1802	Apollos	2	Species	Taxom
Pieridae Duponchel, 1835	Brimstones	1	Species	Taxom
Sphingidae Latreille, 1802	Hawk Moths	1	Species	Taxom
Erebidae Leach, 1815	Erebid Moths	1	Species	Taxom
Lycaenidae Leach, 1815	Blue butterflies	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Sigiriya
7 Genera with 7 Species

Ariadne Horsfield, 1763	Castors	1	Species	Taxom
Atrophaneura Reakirt, 1864	Pachliopta	0	Species	Taxom
Catopsilia Hübner, 1775	Emigrants	1	Species	Taxom
Daphnis Hübner, 1758		1	Species	Taxom
Lymantria Hübner, 1903		1	Species	Taxom
Pachliopta Reakirt, 1758	Red-bodied swallowtails	2	Species	Taxom
Polyommatus Latreille, 1921	Meadow Blues	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Sigiriya
7 Species and 1 Subspecies

Ariadne ariadne Linnaeus, 1763	Angled Castor
Catopsilia florella Fabricius, 1775	African Emigrant
Daphnis nerii Linnaeus, 1758	Army Green Moth
Lymantria (Lymantria) subrosea Swinhoe, 1903
Pachliopta aristolochiae Fabricius, 1775	Common Rose
Pachliopta hector Linnaeus, 1758	Crimson Rose
Polyommatus dama damalis Riley, 1921

Subnodes of Glossata with occurrences in Sigiriya

Infraorder

Heteroneura
Tillyard, 1918

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