Subspecies in India
(1) Mycalesis visala visala Moore, [1858] – Indian Long-branded Bushbrown
(2) Mycalesis visala andamana (Moore, [1892]) – Andaman Long-branded Bushbrown
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| 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 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 4 | |||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 34 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 8 |
Echinochloa colona (Abhay Soman, 2014), Oplismenus burmanni (Abhishek Rane, 2023), Oryza sativa (Poaceae).
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
Soman, A., and A. Rane 2025. Mycalesis visala Moore, [1858] – Long-branded Bushbrown. 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/mycalesis-visala, accessed 2025/11/05.