Subspecies in India
(1) Eurema andersonii shimai Yata & Gaonkar, 1999 – Sahyadri One-spot Grass Yellow
(2) Eurema andersonii jordani Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932 – Sikkim One-spot Grass Yellow (= Jordan's Grass Yellow)
(3) Eurema andersonii evansi Corbet & Pendelbury, 1932 – Andaman One-spot Grass Yellow
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi NCR, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Assam | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 7 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 3 |
Ventilago goughii, Ventilago madraspatana (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(4): 11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Eurema andersonii (Moore, 1886) – One-spot Grass Yellow. 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/eurema-andersonii, accessed 2025/12/16.