Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Lycaenidae > Polyommatinae > Polyommatini > Tarucus
Tarucus nara (Kollar, 1848) – Striped Pierrot
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.
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- Status, Habitat and Habits
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- References
Tarucus nara – Striped Pierrot
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Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
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.
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
References:
Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Lycaenidae > Polyommatinae > Polyommatini > Tarucus
Cite this page along with its URL as:
Bhakare, M., A. Soman, R. P. Das & P. Churi. 2021. Tarucus nara (Kollar, 1848) – Striped Pierrot. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.15. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/937/Tarucus-nara
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