Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species. Two junior synonyms of nara appear commonly in older literature: Tarucus extricatus Butler, 1886 (Rounded Pierrot), and Tarucus alteratus Moore, 1882 (Rusty Pierrot). Tarucus bengalensis Bethune-Baker, 1917 may prove to be yet another synonym for nara.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | ||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | |
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| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 2 | 12 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 12 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 35 | 16 | 14 | 44 | 29 | 7 |
Ziziphus jujuba (Sevastopulo 1941; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Ziziphus nummularia (Bhakare et al. 2018) (Rhamnaceae).
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
Anonymous 2025. Tarucus nara (Kollar, 1848) – Striped Pierrot. 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/tarucus-nara, accessed 2025/11/06.