
Subspecies in India
(1) Discophora lepida lepida (Moore, [1858]) – Sahyadri Duffer
The subspecies lepida is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Kerala | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | |||||||
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Mizoram | |||||||||||||
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
Bambusa (Moore 1893; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Robinson et al. 2010), Dendrocalamus strictus (Wynter-Blyth 1957), Ochlandra scriptoria (Kalesh & Prakash 2015), Ochlandra travancorica (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (Poaceae).
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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Discophora lepida (Moore, [1858]) – Southern Duffer. 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/discophora-lepida, accessed 2025/03/19.