Subspecies in India
(1) Ixias pyrene sesia (Fabricius, 1777) – Dakhan Yellow Orange-tip
(2) Ixias pyrene kausala Moore, 1877 – West Himalayan Yellow Orange-tip
(3) Ixias pyrene familiaris Butler, 1874 – East Himalayan Yellow Orange-tip
(4) Ixias pyrene andamana Moore, 1877 – Andaman Yellow Orange-tip
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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 6 | ||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 10 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Kerala | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 34 | 35 | 26 | 23 | 16 | 6 | |
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Sikkim | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Total | 17 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 48 | 58 | 52 | 67 | 70 | 41 | 30 |
Capparis divaricata (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Capparis sepiaria (Wynter-Blyth 1957), Capparis zeylanica (Robinson et al. 2010) (Capparaceae).
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.
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ixias pyrene (Linnaeus, 1764) – Yellow Orange-tip. 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/ixias-pyrene, accessed 2025/10/28.