Subspecies in India
(1) Abisara bifasciata bifasciata Moore, 1877 – Andaman Double-banded Judy
(2) Abisara bifasciata suffusa Moore, 1882 – Suffused Double-banded Judy
(3) Abisara bifasciata angulata Moore, [1879] – Angled Double-banded Judy
The Indian subspecies under this species were listed by Evans (1932) under Abisara echerius (Stoll, [1790]) – the Plum Judy and Abisara kausambi C. & R. Felder, 1860 – the Straight (Plum) Judy, an arrangement that some recent authors have erroneously followed. Bennett (1950) showed echerius, bifasciata and kausambi to be specifically distinct based on differences in their male genitalia, and we are following his arrangement of subspecies under species on this website. Contrary to popular belief, A. echerius is found in India only in the southern Western Ghats (ssp. prunosa) and the Naga, Manipur and Mizo Hills (ssp. paionea), whereas A. b. suffusa is widely distributed from the Western Ghats to the Vindhya and Satpuda Hills, the Eastern Ghats, Himalaya and NE India up to the Garo and Khasi Hills. Subspecies angulata is found in the Naga Hills, whereas bifasciata is endemic to the Andaman and Nicaobar Islands. KK has personally confirmed these species- and subspecies-level distributional ranges by checking the Abisara specimens deposited in the British Museum of Natural History, London [taxonomic note added in 2013].
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 12 | ||
| Kerala | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Maharashtra | 31 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 37 | 59 | |
| Manipur | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Total | 45 | 30 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 34 | 45 | 38 | 33 | 38 | 54 | 82 |
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Bennett, N. H. 1950. A revision of the echerius group of the genus Abisara Felder (Rhop. Riodinidae). The Entomologist, 83:1-9, 34-42.
Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd ed. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Page citation
Kunte, K., K. Saji, and H. Ogale 2024. Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877 – Double-banded Judy. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/abisara-bifasciata, accessed 2024/10/04.