Subspecies in India
(2) Iambrix salsala luteipalpis (Plötz, 1886) – Southern Chestnut Bob
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 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 32 | 12 | 4 | |||
| Kerala | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 7 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 42 | 21 | 4 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 11 | |||||
| Total | 10 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 28 | 35 | 45 | 72 | 115 | 64 | 21 |
Grass spp., Axonopus compressus, Brachiaria mutica (=Urochloa mutica), Bambusa bambos (=Bambusa arundinacea), Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa wamin), Oplismenus compositus (observation by Niveditha from Cherthala, Alappuzha, Kerala), Setaria barbata (Poaceae).
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
Kandoth, S. 2025. Iambrix salsala (Moore, [1866]) – Chestnut Bob. 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/iambrix-salsala, accessed 2025/10/28.