Butterfly checklist of Bongal Gaon village, including a sighting note of the globally rare Liphyra brassolis (Westwood, 1864) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Upper Assam, India

The butterfly checklist of Bongal Gaon village in Assam revealed a total of 171 species which included 20 species listed as protected under the various schedules of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, enacted in India. Fieldwork for butterfly collection took seven years. The checklist comprises six families, 22 subfamilies, and 105 genera. It includes sightings of the ‘rare’ and ‘very rare’ Moth Butterfly, Liphyra brassolis (Westwood, 1864), the Veined Palmer, Hidari bhawani (de Nicéville, 1889), the Colon Swift, Caltoris cahira (Moore, 1877), and the Scarce Rajah, Charaxes aristogiton (C. & R. Felder, 1867), from in and around Dergaon urban areas of upper Assam in north-eastern India.