Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
Taxonomic Information
This species is sometimes listed under the genus Spindasis. Recent phylogenetic work shows Spindasis to be embedded within Cigaritis, so this species is now treated under Cigaritis.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
Quisqualis, Combretum indicum (Combretaceae). Antidesma ghaesembilla (Phyllanthaceae). Acacia caesia, Acacia pennata (Fabaceae). Sorbaria sorbifolia (Rosaceae).
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.
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Page citation
Nitin, R., and K. Kunte. 2024. Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, [1881]) – Plumbeous 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/Cigaritis-schistacea, accessed 2024/04/29.