Subspecies in India
(1) Kaniska canace canace (Linnaeus, 1763) – Chinese Blue Admiral
(2) Kaniska canace viridis Evans, 1924 – Sahyadri Blue Admiral
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 4 | |||||||
| Kerala | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 32 | 15 | 17 |
Smilax (Robinson et al. 2010) Smilax zeylanica (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Smilacaceae). Dioscorea (Robinson et al. 2010) (Dioscoreaceae) is also reported but needs verification.
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.
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Page citation
Kunte, K., K. Saji & Manoj P 2025. Kaniska canace (Linnaeus, 1763) – Blue Admiral. 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/kaniska-canace, accessed 2025/10/23.