Subspecies in India
(1) Rohana parisatis atacinus Fruhstorfer, 1913 – Sahyadri Black Prince
(2) Rohana parisatis parisatis (Westwood, [1851]) – Assam Black Prince
(2) Rohana parisatis parisatis (Westwood, [1851]) – Assam Black Prince
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
The caterpillar has horns.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 7 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Assam | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 17 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 25 | ||||
| Manipur | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Total | 28 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 35 | 30 |
Celtis (Davidson & Aitken 1890), Celtis philippensis (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017). Celtis timorensis (Robinson et al. 2010), Celtis tetrandra (Bell 1909; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010) (Cannabaceae). Celtis lycodoxylon (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Cannabaceae).
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
Saji, K., H. Ogale & Prashanth S. N 2025. Rohana parisatis (Westwood, [1851]) – Black Prince. 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/rohana-parisatis, accessed 2025/10/28.