The following is a list of butterflies of Nepal. Six hundred and seventy-six 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 (though corrections have been made when clear). The 27 endemic species or subspecies are marked.
Family Hesperiidae - skippers
Subfamily Coeliadinae
Badamia exclamationis - brown awl
Bibasis sena - orange-tail awl
Burara anadi anadi - plain orange awlet
Burara oedipodea belesis - branded orange awlet
Burara jaina jaina - orange awl
Burara harisa harisa - orange awlet
Burara vasutana - green awlet
Burara amara - small green awlet
Burara gomata - pale green awlet
Hasora anura - slate awl
Hasora chromus chromus - common banded awl
Hasora badra badra - common awl
Choaspes benjaminii japonica - Japanese awlking
Choaspes xanthopogon - Indian awlking
Choaspes furcata - hooked awlking
Subfamily Pyrginae
Tribe Calaenorrhini
Capila lidderdali - Lidderdale's dawnfly
Capila penicillatum - fringed dawnfly
Capila jayadeva - striped dawnfly
Lobocla liliana - marbled flat
Celaenorrhinus ratna tytleri - Tytler's multispotted flat
Celaenorrhinus pero lucifera - Mussoorie spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus patula - large spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus leucocera - common spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus putra putra - Bengal spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus munda - Himalayan spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus maculicornis - Elwes' spotted flat
Celaenorrhinus dhanada dhanada - Himalayan yellow-banded flat
Celaenorrhinus nigricans nigricans - Himalayan small-banded flat
Dharpa hanria - hairy angle
Pseudocoladenia fatih - west Himalayan pied flat
Coladenia indrani indrani - tricolour pied flat
Coladenia agnioides - Elwes' pied flat
Sarangesa purendra purendra - spotted small flat
Sarangesa dasahara dasahara - common small flat
Satarupa zulla zulla - Tytler's white flat
Satarupa gopala - large white flat
Seseria dohertyi dohertyi - Himalayan white flat
Chamunda chamunda - olive flat
Gerosis phisara phisara - dusky yellow-breasted flat
Gerosis bhagava bhagava - common yellow-breasted flat
Tagiades japetus ravi - common snow flat
Tagiades gana athos - suffused snow flat
Tagiades parra gala - large snow flat
Tagiades litigiosa litigiosa - water snow flat
Tagiades menaka menaka - spotted snow flat
Tagiades cohaerens cyntyia - Evans' snow flat
Mooreana trichoneura pralaya - yellow flat
Ctenoptilum vasava vasava - tawny angle
Odontoptilum angulata angulata - chestnut angle
Caprona agama agama - spotted angle
Caprona alida yerburi - Yerbury's golden angle
Tribe Pyrgini
Spialia galba - Indian skipper
Pyrgus nepalensis - Nepal skipper (endemic)