
Subspecies in India
(1) Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Drury, 1773) – Oriental Great Eggfly
(2) Hypolimnas bolina bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Sunda Great Eggfly
(2) Hypolimnas bolina bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Sunda Great Eggfly
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
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
Assam | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Bihar | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 4 | ||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
Goa | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 7 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | |
Kerala | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 5 | |||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Maharashtra | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 46 | 58 | 48 | 31 | 22 | 21 | |
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Tripura | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
Uttarakhand | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Total | 19 | 12 | 25 | 19 | 21 | 42 | 101 | 104 | 122 | 96 | 51 | 54 |
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha - Phaulopsis imbricata(V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Acantahceae). Alternanthera sessilis (Robinson et al. 2010) (Amaranthaceae). Sida rhombifolia (Kunte 2006) (Malvaceae). Portulaca oleracea (Davidson & Aitken 1890; Bell 1910a; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Portulacaceae). Solanum torvum (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Solanaceae). Elatostema cuneatum (Davidson & Aitken 1890; Bell 1910a; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Laportea interrupta (Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Urticaceae).
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.
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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2022. Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Great Eggfly. 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/hypolimnas-bolina, accessed 2022/08/11.