Subspecies in India
(1) Mycalesis mineus mineus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Chinese Dark-branded Bushbrown
(2) Mycalesis mineus polydecta (Cramer, [1777]) – Dakhan Dark-branded Bushbrown
(3) Mycalesis mineus nicobarica (Moore, [1890]) – Nicobar Dark-branded Bushbrown
(2) Mycalesis mineus polydecta (Cramer, [1777]) – Dakhan Dark-branded Bushbrown
(3) Mycalesis mineus nicobarica (Moore, [1890]) – Nicobar Dark-branded Bushbrown
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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| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| West Bengal | 5 | 12 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 30 | 9 | 22 |
Mycalesis mineus polydecta - Poaceae (Kunte 2000). Setaria barbata (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (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.
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Page citation
Saji K., S. Kalesh, Nitin Kawthankar and S. Bose 2024. Mycalesis mineus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Dark-branded Bushbrown. 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/mycalesis-mineus, accessed 2024/04/19.