Subspecies in India
(1) Zizina otis otis (Fabricius, 1787) – Oriental Lesser Grass Blue
(2) Zizina otis indica (Murray, 1874) – Indian Lesser Grass Blue
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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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 6 | |||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | |
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 27 | 14 | 33 | |
| Kerala | 27 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Maharashtra | 19 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 31 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 71 | 45 | 27 | 19 | 34 | 34 | 49 | 40 | 47 | 71 | 88 | 101 |
Amaranthus viridis (Amaranthaceae). Alysicarpus vaginalis, Desmodium scorpiurus (Mangal Rane pers. obs. 2024), Grona heterophylla (=Desmodium heterophyllum), Grona triflora (=Desmodium triflorum), Indigofera trifoliata, Sesbania bispinosa, Tephrosia pumila (Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan pers. obs. 2020), Tephrosia purpurea (Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan pers. obs. 2020), Vigna radiata, Zornia diphylla, Zornia gibbosa, Zornia reticulata (Fabaceae). Tribulus terrestris (Zygophyllaceae).
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.
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Page citation
Saji, K., and R. P. Mahajan. 2024. Zizina otis (Fabricius, 1787) – Lesser Grass Blue. 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/zizina-otis, accessed 2024/10/15.