Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
Taxonomic Information
This species is also known as the Moore's Ace.
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, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and West Bengal, 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 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 27 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 23 |
Bambusa tuldoides, Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa striata), Ochlandra scriptoria (Poaceae).
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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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
Kunte, K., Saji K., and Prashanth S. N. 2026. Halpe porus (Mabille, [1877]) – Bispot Banded Ace. 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/halpe-porus, accessed 2026/05/24.