Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This species is legally protected in India under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
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Mizoram | |||||||||||||
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
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Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Lobelia (de Rhe-Philip 1902) (Campanulaceae) Viola (Sevastopulo 1941; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Violaceae). Similar to Argynnis castetsi, this is often treated as a subspecies of Argynnis hyperbius (Linnaeus, 1763). Further work is needed on this species group.
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.
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.
Das GN, Singh N, Chandra K. 2020. Notes on the genus Cyllogenes Butler, 1868 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from India. Trop. Lepid. Res., 30:115–25.
Singh AP, Das DJ. 2016. Butterfly Atlas of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Dehra Dun: Forest Research Institute. pp. 463.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Argynnis hybrida Evans, 1912 – Nilgiri Fritillary. 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/argynnis-hybrida, accessed 2024/12/05.