Subspecies in India
(1) Eurema brigitta rubella (Wallace, 1867) – Red-line Small Grass Yellow
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 10 | 14 | ||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 8 | 6 | ||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 21 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 25 | 35 | 53 | 39 | 26 |
Chamaecrista spp., Chamaecrista kleinii, Chamaecrista mimosoides, Chamaecrista pumila, Smithia sensitiva (Fabaceae).
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
Anonymous 2024. Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780]) – Small Grass Yellow. 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/eurema-brigitta, accessed 2024/10/14.