
Subspecies in India
Conservation and Special status
The subspecies andamensis is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
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 UT | |||||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Assam | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | |||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Goa | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Gujarat | 2 | ||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
Karnataka | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 8 | |
Kerala | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 1 | |
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Maharashtra | 15 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 52 | 40 | 41 | 45 | |
Manipur | 2 | ||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Tripura | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | |
Total | 33 | 25 | 27 | 34 | 25 | 37 | 31 | 68 | 96 | 89 | 87 | 79 |
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.& P. Kannan(2014). First host record of the eulophid wasp Tetrastichus bilgiricus Narendran (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) along with the first description of a male from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(12): 6544–6548; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4051.6544-8
Page citation
Saji K., K. Kunte, P. Churi, T. Bhagwat, Manoj P., and S. Debnath 2025. Euthalia aconthea (Cramer, [1777]) – Common Baron. 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/euthalia-aconthea, accessed 2025/03/26.