Subspecies in India
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 | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Kerala | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 20 | 37 | 26 | 10 | ||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 23 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 33 | 45 | 37 | 59 | 40 | 23 |
Bambusa spp., Bambusa vulgaris (=Bambusa striata & Bambusa wamin), Bambusa tuldoides, Ochlandra travancorica, Oryza spp., Saccharum spp., Saccharum officinarum, Saccharum spontaneum (Poaceae).
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. Telicota bambusae (Moore, 1878) – Dark Palm-Dart. 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/telicota-bambusae, accessed 2025/10/28.