Subspecies in India
(1) Pachliopta aristolochiae aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775) – Indian Common Rose
(2) Pachliopta aristolochiae goniopeltis (Rothschild, 1908) – Indo-Chinese Common Rose
(3) Pachliopta aristolochiae sawi (Evans, 1932) – Car Nicobar Common Rose
(4) Pachliopta aristolochiae camorta (Moore, 1877) – Camorta Common Rose
(5) Pachliopta aristolochiae kondulana (Evans, 1932) – Kondul Common Rose
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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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT, Daman & Diu UT, Delhi NCR, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry UT, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, 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 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 4 | |
| Kerala | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| Maharashtra | 33 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 23 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 24 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Telangana | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Total | 50 | 9 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 37 | 49 | 47 | 68 | 49 | 35 | 38 |
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
Bhakare, M., K. Saji, S. Mazumder, and Swathi H. A 2025. Pachliopta aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775) – Common Rose. 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/pachliopta-aristolochiae, accessed 2025/12/06.