Cepora nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) - Common Gull

Subspecies in India

(1) Cepora nerissa nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) – Chinese Common Gull
(2) Cepora nerissa phryne (Fabricius, 1775) – Dakhan Common Gull
(3) Cepora nerissa dapha (Moore, 1878) – Indo-Chinese Common Gull
(4) Cepora nerissa lichenosa (Moore, 1877) – Andaman Common Gull

Conservation and Special status

  The subspecies dapha is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

  The subspecies dapha is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
 
StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT111211
Andhra Pradesh113211
Arunachal Pradesh3312
Assam21
Bihar1
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh33611122
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
Daman & Diu UT
Delhi112312619432
Goa
Gujarat1113732
Haryana1
Himachal Pradesh11
Jammu and Kashmir UT1
Jharkhand
Karnataka52468391791018812
Kerala141562227
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh11117
Maharashtra1928167919231517283720
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland121
Odisha
Puducherry UT
Punjab1
Rajasthan113
Sikkim332
Tamil Nadu12133367
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh19312410
Uttarakhand1211
West Bengal2110112512313
Total303632365696674460726566

Cadaba fruticosa, Capparis baducca, Capparis brevispina, Capparis cleghornii, Capparis deciduaCapparis rheedeiCapparis rotundifolia (Hemant Ogale pers. obs. 2011), Capparis sepiaria, Capparis zeylanica, Crateva adansonii, Maerua oblongifolia (Capparaceae).

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

Saji K., H. Ogale, and R. P. Mahajan 2024. Cepora nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) – Common Gull. 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/cepora-nerissa, accessed 2024/03/28.