Subspecies in India
(2) Elymnias hypermnestra cottonis (Hewitson, 1874) – Andaman Common Palmfly
Taxonomic Information
Elymnias hypermnestra cottonis (Hewitson, 1874) – Andaman Common Palmfly, was previously treated as a species, Elymnias cottonis (Hewitson, 1874) – Andaman Palmfly, but is now treated as a subspecies of Elymnias hypermnestra (Wei et al. 2017).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 1 | ||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 12 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 52 | 30 | 23 | 13 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Tripura | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 6 | |
| Total | 33 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 39 | 89 | 68 | 68 | 35 |
Areca spp., Areca catechu, Arenga engleri, Arenga pinnata, Arenga wightii, Calamus spp., Calamus rotang, Calamus pseudofeanus, Calamus thwaitesii, Caryota urens, Chamaerops humilis, Cocos nucifera, Dypsis lutescens, Elaeis guineensis, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, Licuala chinensis, Livistona chinensis, Metroxylon sagu, Phoenix spp., Phoenix loureiroi, Rhapis spp., Rhapis excelsa, Rhapis humilis, Trachycarpus fortunei (Arecaceae).
Refs: 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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Gupta, A., and B. Pereira. 2012. A new species of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), a larval parasitoid of Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), along with some new host records of parasitoids from Peninsular India. Zootaxa, 3227: 54–63.
Wei, C.-H., D. J. Lohman, D. Peggie, and S.-H. Yen. 2017. An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys, 676:47–152.
Page citation
Das, R. P., P. Churi, S. Debnath, and J. A. Jacob. 2025. Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus, 1763) – Common Palmfly. 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/elymnias-hypermnestra, accessed 2025/07/26.