Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
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This species is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Kerala | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | |||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 16 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 19 |
Aganosma cymosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Parsonsia alboflavescens (Sushanth 2005) (Apocynaceae). A subspecies name, Idea malabarica kanarensis (Moore, [1890]), is sometimes listed but it represents infrasubspecific variation.
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
Saji K., P. Kale, Prashanth S. N & A. Sengupta 2025. Idea malabarica (Moore, 1877) – Malabar Tree-Nymph. 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/idea-malabarica, accessed 2025/10/23.