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
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry UT, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
| 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 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Kerala | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||||||
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| Meghalaya | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 9 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 29 | 27 | 13 | 10 |
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.
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. 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 2025/11/27.