Nacaduba pactolus (C. Felder, 1860) - Large Four-Lineblue

Subspecies in India

(1) Nacaduba pactolus continentalis Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Continental Large Four-Lineblue
(2) Nacaduba pactolus andamanica Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Andaman Large Four-Lineblue
(3) Nacaduba pactolus macrophthalma (C. Felder, 1862) – Nicobar Large Four-Lineblue
 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT1
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh112
Assam12111
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
Daman & Diu UT
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka3
Kerala4
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra2
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram1
Nagaland
Odisha1
Puducherry UT
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu11
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total516121523
Entada rheedii (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Fabaceae).
 
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

Anonymous 2024. Nacaduba pactolus (C. Felder, 1860) – Large Four-Lineblue. 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/nacaduba-pactolus, accessed 2024/11/06.