Subspecies in India
(1) Danaus genutia genutia (Cramer, [1779]) – Oriental Striped Tiger
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Bihar | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 8 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
| Goa | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 18 | |
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Maharashtra | 27 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 33 | 30 | 57 | 19 | |
| Manipur | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 6 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Total | 45 | 21 | 21 | 41 | 26 | 58 | 45 | 42 | 81 | 69 | 84 | 60 |
Asclepias curassavica, Ceropegia fantastica, Ceropegia hirsuta, Ceropegia intermedia, Ceropegia lawii, Ceropegia vincifolia, Cynanchum callialatum, Cynanchum dalhousiae, Cynanchum liukiuense, Holostemma ada-kodien, Marsdenia floribunda, Marsdenia tinctoria, Marsdenia tomentosa, Passularia, Raphistemma lemma, Raphistemma pulchellum, Tylophora flexuosa (Apocynaceae).
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
Saji K., N. Shastri, M. Bhakare, P. Churi & A. Sengupta. 2025. Danaus genutia (Cramer, [1779]) – Striped 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-genutia, accessed 2025/10/28.