Spindasis abnormis (Moore, [1884]) - Abnormal Silverline

Subspecies in India

No subspecies are listed under this species.

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Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
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Delhi
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Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
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Madhya Pradesh
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Manipur
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Tamil Nadu1
Tripura
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West Bengal
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Terminalia (Bean 1968) (Combretaceae). Cassia fistula (Lovalekar et al. 2011), Entada (Bean 1968) (Fabaceae). Species of Spindasis, along with that of Apharitis, are often treated under Cigaritis following Heath (1997), but this needs to be confirmed with molecular phylogenetic analysis.

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 2023. Spindasis abnormis (Moore, [1884]) – Abnormal Silverline. 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/spindasis-abnormis, accessed 2023/06/06.