Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species. It is usually treated as a subspecies of the Sri Lankan Mycalesis patnia Moore, 1857 – Sri Lankan Glad-eye Bushbrown.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Goa | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 1 | |||
| Kerala | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 22 | 13 |
Poaceae (K. Kunte pers. obs. 2017). Oplismenus compositus (Kalesh & Prakash 2015) (Poaceae). This is often treated as a subspecies of Mycalesis patnia Moore, [1858].
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. Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868 – Malabar Glad-eye 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/mycalesis-junonia, accessed 2024/10/04.