Subspecies in India
(1) Eurema hecabe hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Common Grass Yellow
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
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 19 | 11 | ||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 14 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 30 | 38 | 29 | 33 | 54 | 34 | 35 | |
| Kerala | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 13 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Maharashtra | 22 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 46 | 35 | 84 | 99 | 55 | 38 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Telangana | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| West Bengal | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 7 | |
| Total | 55 | 32 | 31 | 54 | 54 | 69 | 144 | 134 | 272 | 237 | 167 | 133 |
Acacia spp., Aeschynomene americana, Aeschynomene indica, Albizia spp., Albizia procera, Biancaea sappan (=Caesalpinia sappan), Caesalpinia spp., Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Calliandra haematocephala, Cassia spp., Cassia fistula, Chamaecrista kleinii, Chamaecrista mimosoides, Delonix regia, Hultholia mimosoides (=Caesalpinia mimosoides), Libidibia coriaria (=Caesalpinia coriaria), Mimosa pudica, Moullava spp., Moullava spicata, Peltophorum pterocarpum, Pithecellobium dulce, Samanea saman (=Albizia saman), Senna alata, Senna obtusifolia, Senna tora, Sesbania spp., Sesbania bispinosa, Sesbania grandiflora, Sesbania sesban, Smithia conferta, Smithia sensitiva (Fabaceae).
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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Page citation
Saji K., T. Bhagwat, R. Kasambe, R. P. Mahajan, S. Debnath, A. Bose, and K. Mohite 2026. Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Grass Yellow. 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/eurema-hecabe, accessed 2026/05/24.