Subspecies in India
(1) Argynnis hyperbius hyperbius (Linnaeus, 1763) – Chinese Tropical Fritillary
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 6 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 3 | ||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 13 | 11 |
Lobelia (de Rhe-Philip 1902) (Campanulaceae). Viola (Sevastopulo 1941; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Violaceae).
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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Argynnis hyperbius (Linnaeus, 1763) – Tropical 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-hyperbius, accessed 2025/10/29.