Caprona alida (de Nicéville, 1891) - Alida Angle

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.
 
StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT
Andhra Pradesh1
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
Daman & Diu UT
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka193321
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Puducherry UT
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu21
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total21933311

Grewia hirsuta (Malvaceae) (Ashok Sengupta and Krushnamegh Kunte, unpublished).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.