Subspecies in India
(1) Pantoporia hordonia hordonia (Stoll, [1790]) – Oriental Common Lascar
Taxonomic Information
Pantoporia cnacalis Hewitson, 1874 is treated here as a distinct species that is endemic to the Andaman Islands, rather than as a subspecies of Pantoporia hordonia (Stoll, [1790]) – Common Lascar.
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Assam | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 8 | |||
| Kerala | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | |||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 14 | ||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Total | 21 | 21 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 41 | 48 | 45 |
Acacia spp., Acacia megaladena, Acacia sinuata, Albizia spp., Albizia odoratissima (Fabaceae).
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
Agavekar, G., K. Saji, K. Kunte and Prashanth S. N. 2024. Pantoporia hordonia (Stoll, [1790]) – Common Lascar. 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/pantoporia-hordonia, accessed 2024/04/16.