Subspecies in India
(1) Ixias pyrene sesia (Fabricius, 1777) – Dakhan Yellow Orange-tip
(2) Ixias pyrene kausala Moore, 1877 – West Himalayan Yellow Orange-tip
(3) Ixias pyrene familiaris Butler, 1874 – East Himalayan Yellow Orange-tip
(4) Ixias pyrene andamana Moore, 1877 – Andaman Yellow Orange-tip
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
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 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 3 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 6 | |||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
Haryana | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | ||
Kerala | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 34 | 35 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 6 | |
Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
Mizoram | 2 | ||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Odisha | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | 2 | ||||||||||||
Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Sikkim | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
Total | 16 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 22 | 45 | 58 | 52 | 65 | 68 | 40 | 28 |
Capparis divaricata (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Capparis sepiaria (Wynter-Blyth 1957), Capparis zeylanica (Robinson et al. 2010) (Capparaceae).
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, 10:11495–11550.
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, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Ixias pyrene (Linnaeus, 1764) – Yellow Orange-tip. 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/ixias-pyrene, accessed 2024/12/06.