Subspecies in India
(1) Sarangesa purendra purendra Moore, 1882 – West Himalayan Spotted Small Flat
(2) Sarangesa purendra pandra Evans, 1949 – Hill Spotted Small Flat
(3) Sarangesa purendra sati de Nicéville, 1891 – Desert Spotted Small Flat
(4) Sarangesa purendra hopkinsi Evans, 1921 – Dakhan Spotted Small Flat
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022 ('WPAA').
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This species has been recorded so far from Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir UT, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and Uttarakhand, within the Indian limits.
This species is common.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |||||
| Kerala | 1 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 5 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 4 | ||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 6 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 19 | 37 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
Asystasia, Cynarospermum asperrimum (=Blepharis asperrima), Lepidagathis keralensis (Acanthaceae).
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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.
Page citation
Tadse, S., and K. Kunte. 2026. Sarangesa purendra Moore, 1882 – Spotted Small 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/sarangesa-purendra, accessed 2026/05/24.