Subspecies in India
No subspecies are listed under this species.
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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Haryana | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Karnataka | 22 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 6 | |
| Kerala | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Maharashtra | 12 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 27 | 13 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Total | 36 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 44 | 57 | 76 | 57 | 52 | 35 |
Mangifera indica (Young 1907) (Anacardiaceae). Quercus incana (Mackinnon & deNiceville 1898) (Fagaceae). Shorea robusta (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Dipterocarpaceae). Diospyros exsculpta (Robinson et al. 2010), Diospyros melanoxylon (Bell 1909; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Ebenaceae). Grewia asiatica (Robinson et al. 2010) (Malvaceae).
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 2024. Symphaedra nais (Forster, 1771) – Baronet. 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/symphaedra-nais, accessed 2024/04/20.