Subspecies in India
(1) Tagiades gana silvia Evans, 1934 – Dakhan Suffused Snow Flat
(2) Tagiades gana athos Plötz, 1884 – Bengal Suffused Snow Flat
(3) Tagiades gana alica Moore, 1877 – Andaman Suffused Snow Flat
(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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| 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 | 4 | ||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
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| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Kerala | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 6 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 9 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 8 |
Dioscorea alata (Kalesh & Prakash 2007; Robinson et al. 2010), Dioscorea oppositifolia (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Dioscorea wallichii (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (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, 10:11495–11550.
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 2023. 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 2023/10/03.