
Subspecies in India
(1) Ariadne merione merione (Cramer, [1777]) – Dakhan Common Castor
(2) Ariadne merione tapestrina (Moore, 1884) – Intricate Common Castor
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | |||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 11 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 17 | |
Kerala | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Maharashtra | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 37 | 38 | 17 | ||
Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Tripura | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | |||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | 9 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
West Bengal | 9 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | ||||
Total | 32 | 15 | 19 | 26 | 16 | 14 | 46 | 44 | 89 | 77 | 89 | 61 |
Ricinus communis (de Rhe-Philip 1902; Sevastopulo 1939; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Tragia hispida (Robinson et al. 2010;), Tragia involucrata (Bell 1910b; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Tragia plukenetii (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010) (Euphorbiaceae).
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.
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.
Page citation
Saji K., H. Ogale, V. Jathar, T. Bhagwat, M. Konwar, N. Ravikanthachari, and S. Debnath 2022. Ariadne merione (Cramer, [1777]) – Common Castor. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/ariadne-merione, accessed 2022/08/20.