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Subspecies in India
(2) Prosotas nora fulva (Evans, [1925]) – Andaman Common Lineblue
(3) Prosotas nora dilata (Evans, 1932) – Nicobar Common Lineblue
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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 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | ||||||
Assam | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 8 | 16 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 10 | |
Kerala | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 4 | |||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
Maharashtra | 26 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 8 | 14 | 17 | |
Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Meghalaya | 1 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 2 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||||
Tripura | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Total | 45 | 35 | 54 | 61 | 46 | 44 | 35 | 24 | 68 | 52 | 61 | 49 |
Mallotus philippensis (Euphorbiaceae). Acacia spp., Acacia caesia, Acacia catechu, Acacia torta, Mimosa invisa, Pithecellobium dulce (Fabaceae). Allophylus cobbe (Sapindaceae).
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.
Ek-Amnuay, P. 2012. Butterflies of Thailand. 2nd edn. Baan Lae Suan (=Amarin) Printing & Publishing Co., Bangkok.
Evans, W. H. 1932. The identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd edn. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Inayoshi, Y. 2015. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China (chiefly from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam). Accessed 22 February 2015. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/pap/10490001.html.
Larsen, T. B. 2004. Butterflies of Bangladesh – An Annotated Checklist. IUCN Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka.
Page citation
Saji K. and A. Soman 2024. Prosotas nora (C. Felder, 1860) – Common Lineblue. 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://odonata.ncbs.res.in/prosotas-nora, accessed 2024/07/04.