Subspecies in India
(1) Tagiades litigiosa litigiosa Möschler, 1878 – Sylhet Water Snow Flat
(2) Tagiades litigiosa andamanica Evans, 1932 – Andaman Water Snow Flat
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry UT, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, 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 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 42 | 26 | 11 | |||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 48 | 73 | 20 | 3 | ||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 32 | 24 | 107 | 122 | 35 | 4 |
Dioscorea sp., Dioscorea alata, Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea pentaphylla, Dioscorea wallichii (Dioscoreaceae). Shorea roxburghii (Dipterocarpaceae). Smilax sp. (Smilacaceae).
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
Yadav, N., and K. Kunte. 2026. Tagiades litigiosa Möschler, 1878 – Water Snow 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/tagiades-litigiosa, accessed 2026/05/24.