Subspecies in India
(1) Leptosia nina nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Oriental Psyche
(2) Leptosia nina nicobarica (Doherty, 1886) – Nicobar Psyche
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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 16 | |
| Kerala | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Maharashtra | 12 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 35 | 23 | 28 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
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| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 6 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | |||
| Total | 40 | 41 | 36 | 26 | 22 | 34 | 28 | 25 | 51 | 80 | 72 | 72 |
Capparis (Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis baducca (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis spinosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Capparis zeylanica (Kunte 2006), Crateva adansonii (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Crateva religiosa (Robinson et al. 2010; Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Capparaceae). Cleome rutidosperma var. burmannii (Kalesh & Prakash 2015), Cleome viscosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Cleomaceae). Azima tetracantha (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Salvadoraceae).
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. Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Psyche. 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/leptosia-nina, accessed 2025/10/24.