Kaiser-i-Hind. Great Archduke. Chocolate Tiger. Punchinello. Indian Purple Sapphire. If you are thinking these are names of some exotic dishes or even flowers, we forgive you. They are, in fact, names of some charming butterfly species that are found in Northeast India. The Northeastern part of India contains some of the world’s most northernly tropical rainforests. This region, that stretches across the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Manipura, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh receives substantial rainfall – often exceeding 2300 meters – that enables several lush, dense evergreen and semi-evergreen ecosystems to thrive in the region.
