Subspecies in India
(1) Caprona alida alida (de Nicéville, 1891) – Myanmarese Alida Angle
(2) Caprona alida yerburyi Evans, 1949 – Terai Alida Angle
(3) Caprona alida vespa Evans, 1949 – Dakhan Alida Angle
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
The subspecies cyara is legally protected in India under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Haryana | |||||||||||||
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Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 1 | 9 | 33 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 1 | 9 | 33 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grewia hirsuta (Malvaceae) (Ashok Sengupta and Krushnamegh Kunte, unpublished).
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(4): 11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Page citation
Sengupta, A., and K. Kunte. 2024. Caprona alida (de Nicéville, 1891) – Alida Angle. 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/caprona-alida, accessed 2024/03/28.