Subspecies in India
Conservation and Special status
The subspecies andamensis is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the 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 | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | |||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 6 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 8 | |
| Kerala | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 2 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Maharashtra | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 53 | 41 | 44 | 45 | |
| Manipur | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tripura | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | |
| Total | 35 | 27 | 28 | 35 | 27 | 38 | 35 | 74 | 103 | 90 | 98 | 80 |
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.
Gupta, A.& P. Kannan (2014). First host record of the eulophid wasp Tetrastichus bilgiricus Narendran (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) along with the first description of a male from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(12): 6544–6548; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4051.6544-8
Page citation
Saji K., K. Kunte, P. Churi, T. Bhagwat, Manoj P., S. Debnath, and R. Girotra 2025. Euthalia aconthea (Cramer, [1777]) – Common Baron. 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/euthalia-aconthea, accessed 2025/10/30.





