Subspecies in India
(1) Discolampa ethion ethion (Westwood, [1851]) – Oriental Banded Blue Pierrot
(2) Discolampa ethion airavati (Doherty, 1886) – Nicobar Banded Blue Pierrot
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, and Tripura, within the Indian limits.
This is a common species.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 41 | 7 | 2 | |||||
| Kerala | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | |||||||
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| Tripura | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 35 | 58 | 24 | 17 |
Ziziphus jujuba, Ziziphus oenopolia, Ziziphus xylopyrus (Rhamnaceae).
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Bruna, C.D., E. Gallo & V. Sbordoni (2000). Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region, Satyridae. Part 2. Milan: Omnes Artes, 2000, 58pp.
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
Saji K., Manoj P, Prashanth S. N, S. Aneesha, and K. Kunte. 2026. Discolampa ethion (Westwood, [1851]) – Banded Blue Pierrot. 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/discolampa-ethion, accessed 2026/05/24.