We examined the spatial patterns and factors influencing Lepidoptera aggregations of road-kill in the foot hill of Marudhamalai, Coimbatore, Southern India. We surveyed roads varying in high traffic volume, configuration and adjacent landscape attributes for road-kills between Jan 2010 – December 2010. In the present study is to assess the level of mortality and factors from road kills of the study area. The five species namely, Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus), Danaus plexippus (Cramer) Tirumala limniac(Cramer), Pachliopta hector (Linnaeus) and Pachliopta aristolochiae (Fabricius) were analyzed high frequencies of road-kills Apparently associated with reproductive behavior, temperature, and carrion or roadside vegetation which attract Lepidoptera to roads and increase their vulnerability to highway mortality
