Subspecies in India
(1) Danaus chrysippus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Plain Tiger
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Bihar | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 3 | |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 8 | ||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Haryana | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 7 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 21 | 31 | 29 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 18 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Maharashtra | 8 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 24 | 12 | 24 | 38 | 35 | 46 | 30 | 13 | |
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Tripura | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 9 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 20 | 13 | |
| Total | 43 | 47 | 62 | 102 | 85 | 84 | 97 | 90 | 126 | 127 | 90 | 77 |
Asclepias curassavica (Moore 1890; Bell 1909a; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Calotropis (Robinson et al. 2010), Calotropis gigantea (Moore 1890; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Calotropis procera (Sevastopulo 1938; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Robinson et al. 2010), Caralluma adscendens (Lovalekar et al. 2018), Cryptolepis dubia (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Pergularia daemia (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Apocynaceae). Besides these plants, Hibiscus (Robinson et al. 2010) (Malvaceae) and Poaceae (Robinson et al. 2010) have been reported for this butterfly species, which is clearly an ovipositioin error, if the plants were recorded correctly in the first place.
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.
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Page citation
Lovalekar R., K. Saji, V. Barve, T. Bhagwat & Manoj P 2023. Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Plain Tiger. 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/danaus-chrysippus, accessed 2023/06/06.