Subspecies in India
(1) Eurema blanda silhetana (Wallace, 1867) – Sylhet Three-spot Grass Yellow
(2) Eurema blanda moorei (Butler, 1886) – Car Nicobar Three-spot Grass Yellow
(3) Eurema blanda grisea (Evans, 1932) – South Nicobar Three-spot 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
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Assam | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 10 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 58 | 38 | 21 | |
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | |||||||
| Total | 20 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 20 | 26 | 38 | 44 | 94 | 73 | 47 |
Acrocarpus fraxinifolius, Albizia spp., Albizia amara, Albizia chinensis, Albizia lebbeck, Bauhinia purpurea, Biancaea sappan (=Caesalpinia sappan), Calliandra haematocephala, Calliandra houstoniana, Cassia spp., Cassia fistula, Cassia javanica, Chamaecrista mimosoides, Delonix regia, Falcataria falcata, Gliricidia sepium, Guilandina bonduc (=Caesalpinia bonduc), Hultholia mimosoides (=Caesalpinia mimosoides), Mezoneuron cucullatum, Moullava spicata, Pithecellobium dulce, Senna sulfurea (Shashidharswamy Hiremath, 2021), Senna surattensis (Shashidharswamy Hiremath, 2021), Sesbania spp., Sesbania bispinosa, Sesbania grandiflora, Xylia xylocarpa (Fabaceae). Camellia sinensis (Theaceae).
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. & Manoj P 2026. Eurema blanda (Boisduval, 1836) – Three-spot 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/index.php/eurema-blanda, accessed 2026/05/24.