Subspecies in India
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 20 | 22 | 29 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 9 | |
| Kerala | 5 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Maharashtra | 33 | 25 | 20 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 33 | 25 | |
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 66 | 77 | 77 | 92 | 54 | 27 | 33 | 30 | 51 | 68 | 74 | 45 |
Abrus precatorius, Albizia lebbeck, Dalbergia lanceolaria, Indigofera spp., Indigofera suffruticosa (Paresh Churi pers. obs. 2016), Macroptilium lathyroides (Paresh Churi pers. obs. 2016), Mimosa spp., Rhynchosia minima (Rajesh Prabhakar Mahajan pers. obs. 2020), Sesbania bispinosa (Fabaceae). Dyerophytum indicum, Plumbago spp., Plumbago auriculata, Plumbago indica, Plumbago zeylanica (Plumbaginaceae).
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, P. Churi, and R. P. Mahajan 2025. Leptotes plinius (Fabricius, 1793) – Zebra 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/leptotes-plinius, accessed 2025/05/20.