Subspecies in India
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 | ||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 22 | 15 | 13 | 6 | |||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 17 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 53 | 44 | 38 | 34 | 14 |
Bambusa spp., Bambusa bambos (=Bambusa arundinacea), Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa striata), Dendrocalamus strictus, Dinochloa andamanica, Ochlandra scriptoria, Ochlandra talbotii, Ochlandra travancorica, Oxytenanthera spp., Schizostachyum spp. (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
Saji K., P. Kale, A. Kane, S. Debnath 2024. Matapa aria (Moore, [1866]) – Common Branded Redeye. 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/matapa-aria, accessed 2024/04/20.