Subspecies in India
(1) Mycalesis visala visala Moore, [1858] – Indian Long-branded Bushbrown
(2) Mycalesis visala andamana (Moore, [1892]) – Andaman Long-branded Bushbrown
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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 3 | |||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Total | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 34 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 7 |
Echinochloa colona (Abhay Soman, 2014), Oplismenus burmanni (Abhishek Rane, 2023), Oryza sativa (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.
Page citation
Soman, A., and A. Rane 2024. Mycalesis visala Moore, [1858] – Long-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-visala, accessed 2024/10/15.