Subspecies in India
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 1 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 7 | 17 | 14 | 1 | |||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 42 | 48 | 29 | 4 |
Alpinia calcarata, Alpinia zerumbet, Curcuma spp., Curcuma aurantiaca, Curcuma decipiens, Curcuma longa, Globba spp., Globba marantina, Hedychium spp., Hedychium coronarium, Hellenia speciosa (=Costus speciosus), Kaempferia rotunda, Zingiber odoriferum, Zingiber purpureum, Zingiber zerumbet (Zingiberaceae).
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
Anonymous 2025. Notocrypta curvifascia (C. & R. Felder, 1862) – Restricted Demon. 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/notocrypta-curvifascia, accessed 2025/12/06.


