Subspecies in India
Conservation and Special status
This species was previously protected in India under Schedule II of the WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972. The WildLife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022, does not list it under any Schedules.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This species was previously protected in India under Schedule II of the WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972. The WildLife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022, does not list it under any Schedules.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Goa | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 40 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 27 | 23 | 36 | |
| Kerala | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 8 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Maharashtra | 28 | 27 | 38 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 32 | 11 | |
| Manipur | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Telangana | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 91 | 60 | 104 | 71 | 37 | 27 | 15 | 21 | 31 | 53 | 63 | 69 |
Abrus precatorius, Butea monosperma, Butea superba, Caesalpinia spp., Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria spp., Crotalaria capensis, Crotalaria juncea, Crotalaria micans, Crotalaria pallida, Crotalaria retusa, Crotalaria saltiana, Gliricidia sepium, Indigofera heterantha, Lablab purpureus, Lupinus spp., Melilotus spp., Melilotus indicus, Pisum spp., Pisum sativum, Pongamia pinnata (=Millettia pinnata), Pueraria phaseoloides, Robinia pseudoacacia, Vigna unguiculata, Xylia xylocarpa (Fabaceae).
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., K. Chhaya, N. Kawthankar, and K. Kunte. 2026. Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767) – Pea Blue. 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/lampides-boeticus, accessed 2026/05/24.