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 |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 6 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Bihar | 1 | 1 | 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 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 8 | ||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Haryana | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 8 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 27 | 34 | 36 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 19 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 11 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Maharashtra | 10 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 28 | 13 | 24 | 42 | 43 | 49 | 30 | 13 | |
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Punjab | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Tripura | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| West Bengal | 9 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 20 | 14 | |
| Total | 46 | 49 | 68 | 114 | 101 | 92 | 110 | 103 | 144 | 134 | 92 | 80 |
Asclepias curassavica, Calotropis, Calotropis gigantea, Calotropis procera, Caralluma adscendens, Cryptolepis dubia, Pergularia daemia (Apocynaceae). Besides these plants, Hibiscus (Malvaceae) and Poaceae 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.
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Page citation
Lovalekar R., K. Saji, V. Barve, T. Bhagwat & Manoj P. 2025. 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 2025/05/20.