Subspecies in India
(1) Burara jaina jaina (Moore, [1866]) – Darjeeling Common Orange Awlet
(2) Burara jaina fergusonii (de Nicéville, [1893]) – Sahyadri Common Orange Awlet
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022 ('WPAA').
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This species has been recorded so far from Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
This species is common.
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | |||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 32 | 4 | |||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Total | 19 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 48 | 13 |
Combretum latifolium (Combretaceae). Hiptage benghalensis (Malpighiaceae).
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Ankita Gupta, Swapnil A. Lokhande & Abhay Soman.2013. Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) Zootaxa 3701 (2): 277–290.
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.
Page citation
Saji, K., Kalesh S., M. Bhakare, Manoj P., S. Tadse, and K. Kunte. 2026. Burara jaina (Moore, [1866]) – Common Orange Awlet. 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/index.php/burara-jaina, accessed 2026/05/24.