Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
This species is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
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Endemic to peninsular and northern India, from Haridwar in Uttarakhand and Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh to Bengaluru in southern Karnataka, also a record from Assam in NE India.
This species is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.Very rare, only a few dozen specimens have ever been reported. As of 2012, the only recent record was by Nitin R. from Hesarghatta Lake in Bengaluru Urban District, on 23 Dec. 2012 (BOI media code as340). Since then, several dozen more records have accumulated on this website, indicating that the species has a stable, breeding population of the species around Bengaluru. The species flies all year.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 17 | 9 | 12 | 42 | 32 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 13 | |
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 17 | 9 | 12 | 42 | 32 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 13 |
Unknown. See the previous species for treatment under Cigaritis.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Apharitis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) – Lilac Silverline. 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/apharitis-lilacinus, accessed 2023/03/21.