Subspecies in India
(1) Cethosia cyane cyane (Drury, [1773]) – Bengal Leopard Lacewing
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This species has historically been known from the Himalaya and NE India to Indo-China, but not from the Andaman Islands (Evans 1932; Wynter-Blyth 1957). More recent records from Havelock Island and Port Blair (Mohanraj & Veenakumari 2011; BOI-aq376, BOI-aq377, and BOI-ce592) have extended the known distribution of the species in the Andaman Islands.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Assam | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | |
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| Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 13 | 8 |
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Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd ed. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Mohanraj, P, and K. Veenakumari 2011. Butterflies of the Andaman and Nicobar islands: history of collection and checklist. Zootaxa, 3050:1–36.
Wynter-Blyth, M. A. 1957. Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Cethosia cyane (Drury, [1773]) – Leopard Lacewing. 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/cethosia-cyane, accessed 2024/10/04.