Subspecies in India
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | |
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 46 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | ||
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 9 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 27 | 75 | 60 | 55 | 30 | 27 | 13 |
Glycine max (Fabaceae). Alcea rosea, Hibiscus spp., Sida rhombifolia, Melochia corchorifolia, Urena lobata, Waltheria indica (Malvaceae).
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. Spialia galba (Fabricius, 1793) – Asian Grizzled Skipper. 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/spialia-galba, accessed 2025/10/28.





