Subspecies in India
(1) Lethe europa europa (Fabricius, 1775) – Dakhan Bamboo Treebrown
(2) Lethe europa niladana Fruhstorfer, 1911 – Himalayan Bamboo Treebrown
(3) Lethe europa nudgara Fruhstorfer, 1911 – Andaman Bamboo Treebrown
Also see Lethe tamuna de Nicéville, 1887 – Clear-eyed Treebrown, a Nicobarese endemic, which is often treated as a subspecies of L. europa.
(2) Lethe europa niladana Fruhstorfer, 1911 – Himalayan Bamboo Treebrown
(3) Lethe europa nudgara Fruhstorfer, 1911 – Andaman Bamboo Treebrown
Also see Lethe tamuna de Nicéville, 1887 – Clear-eyed Treebrown, a Nicobarese endemic, which is often treated as a subspecies of L. europa.
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 UT | 2 | ||||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Assam | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
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Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
Karnataka | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 8 | ||
Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | ||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Maharashtra | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 26 | 16 | |||
Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Meghalaya | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 5 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Total | 14 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 23 | 32 | 34 | 52 | 39 |
Poaceae (Robinson et al. 2010), Bambusa bambos (Wynter-Blyth 1957), Bambusa vulgaris (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Dendrocalamus strictus (Wynter-Blyth 1957) (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, 10:11495–11550.
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. and K.M. Haneesh 2024. Lethe europa (Fabricius, 1775) – Bamboo Treebrown. 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/lethe-europa, accessed 2024/12/03.