Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species. This is also known as the Sikkim Palm Dart (Smith 1989), Sikkim Palm Red-eye (Smith 2006), Giant Skipper (Ek-Amnuay 2007), and Banana Skipper (several Indo-Chinese and SE Asian websites).
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 | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 14 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Kerala | 2 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 6 | 14 | 4 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 9 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 7 | |||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 14 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 24 | 29 | 22 | 55 | 28 |
Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae). Ensete superbum (Manoj P. pers. obs. 2015), Musa x paradisiaca (Musaceae).
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(4): 11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Ek-Amnuay, P. 2007. Butterflies of Thailand. Baan Lae Suan- Amarin Printing and Publishing Co., Bangkok, 865pp.
Evans, W.H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd edn. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, 454pp.
Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London, 502pp.
Smith, C. 1989. Butterflies of Nepal (Central Himalaya). Tecpress Service L.P., Bangkok, 352pp.
Smith, C. 2006. Illustrated Checklist of Nepal's Butterflies. 2nd, revised edn. Walden Book House, Kathmandu, 129pp.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Erionota torus Evans, 1941 – Rounded Palm-redeye. 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/erionota-torus, accessed 2024/04/20.