Subspecies in India
(2) Tagiades gana athos Plötz, 1884 – Bengal Suffused Snow Flat
(3) Tagiades gana alica Moore, 1877 – Andaman Suffused Snow Flat
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 |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Assam | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
Kerala | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
Tripura | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 9 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 11 | 8 |
Dioscorea alata, Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea wallichii (Dioscoreaceae).
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 2024. Tagiades gana (Moore, [1866]) – Suffused Snow Flat. 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/tagiades-gana, accessed 2024/12/03.