[Community diversity of butterfly in Houhe National Nature Reserve].

In 2003-2004, a field investigation was made on the composition of butterfly community in the Houhe National Nature Reserve of Hubei Province, and the diversity, evenness and dominance of the community on the levels of family, genus and species in spring, summer and autumn were studied by the method of alpha-diversity. The results showed that the species richness, diversity, and dominance indices were the highest in summer, while the evenness index wasthe highest in spring. Nymphalidae was the highest in richness at the level of families, with the value of 32.