Chonala albistricta Kunte & Khan, 2026 - Narrow-banded Wall

Subspecies in India

No subspecies are listed under this species.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

This species is known so far only from the Mayodia Pass, Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It may occur at Anini in Upper Dibang and further east in N Myanmar.

 

This is a seasonally and locally common species that occurs in large, sunny, rocky areas in broadleaf forest at 2,600 to 2,900 m asl.

 

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh4
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
Daman & Diu UT
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Puducherry UT
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total4

Kunte, K., F. Khan, and U. Pawar. 2026. A new species of Chonala Moore, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from northeastern India. Zootaxa, 5828:575–586.

 

Page citation

Kunte, K. 2026. Chonala albistricta Kunte & Khan, 2026 – Narrow-banded Wall. 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/chonala-albistricta, accessed 2026/06/11.