Subspecies in India
(1) Cepora nerissa nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) – Chinese Common Gull
(2) Cepora nerissa phryne (Fabricius, 1775) – Dakhan Common Gull
(3) Cepora nerissa dapha (Moore, 1878) – Indo-Chinese Common Gull
(4) Cepora nerissa lichenosa (Moore, 1877) – Andaman Common Gull
Conservation and Special status
The subspecies dapha is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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The subspecies dapha is legally protected in India under Schedule II 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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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 42 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 12 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 19 | 28 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 19 | 28 | 37 | 20 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | ||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Total | 30 | 36 | 33 | 39 | 57 | 99 | 70 | 44 | 62 | 73 | 65 | 66 |
Cadaba fruticosa, Capparis baducca, Capparis brevispina, Capparis cleghornii, Capparis decidua, Capparis rheedei, Capparis rotundifolia (Hemant Ogale pers. obs. 2011), Capparis sepiaria, Capparis zeylanica, Crateva adansonii, Maerua oblongifolia (Capparaceae).
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.
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Page citation
Saji K., H. Ogale, and R. P. Mahajan 2024. Cepora nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) – Common Gull. 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/cepora-nerissa, accessed 2024/10/13.