Data used in "Fragments of open- and closed-canopy habitat host significant fruitfeeding butterfly diversity in a large city in Southern India"

To gauge the diversity, community composition, and temporal variation of butterflies in urban habitats, we sampled fruit-feeding butterflies (species that feed on fruit rather than flower nectar) in a large city in southern India. We performed longer-term sampling in two sites with mainly open habitats (fragments of rural landscape), and more modest sampling in two closed-canopy urban sites (semi-natural and agroforestry) and a nearby natural forest. We caught 3625 butterflies belonging to 29 species, of which seventeen species were recorded in the open habitats, and a further five species in the closed-canopy sites in the city. The Excel file provides the place and date for each specimen with information on the species in a separate sheet.为评估城市生境中蝴蝶的物种多样性、群落组成及时间动态，我们在印度南部一座大型城市中针对食果蝴蝶（即取食果实而非花蜜的蝴蝶类群）开展了采样工作。我们在两处以开阔生境为主的样地（乡村景观片段）开展了长期采样，并在两处城市密闭冠层样地（半自然生境与农林业生境）及邻近的天然林开展了采样强度相对较低的采样。本次共采集到隶属于29个物种的3625只蝴蝶，其中开阔生境中记录到17个物种，城市密闭冠层样地中额外记录到5个物种。本数据集配套的Excel文件中，单独的工作表包含了每份标本的采集地点、采集日期及对应物种信息。