
Subspecies in India
(2) Elymnias hypermnestra cottonis (Hewitson, 1874) – Andaman Common Palmfly. This taxon 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 |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Assam | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 1 | ||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
Karnataka | |||||||||||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
Maharashtra | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 44 | 25 | 18 | 7 | |
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Mizoram | 3 | ||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 6 | |
Total | 23 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 37 | 71 | 59 | 59 | 27 |
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.
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
Anonymous 2022. Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus, 1763) – Common Palmfly. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/elymnias-hypermnestra, accessed 2022/08/13.