Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species. In India, it is also known as Celaenorrhinus ruficornis, the Tamil Spotted Flat.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 2 | ||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 3 | |||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | |||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 33 | 19 | 7 |
Strobilanthes heyneana, Strobilanthes callosa, Strobilanthes ciliata (=Nilgirianthus ciliatus), Strobilanthes wightiana (Acanthaceae).
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
Anonymous 2025. Celaenorrhinus fusca (Hampson, [1889]) – Dusky Spotted Flat. 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/celaenorrhinus-fusca, accessed 2025/11/05.