Subspecies in India
(1) Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Drury, 1773) – Oriental Great Eggfly
(2) Hypolimnas bolina bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Sunda Great Eggfly
(2) Hypolimnas bolina bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Sunda Great Eggfly
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 7 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Maharashtra | 9 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 50 | 61 | 56 | 32 | 23 | 22 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
| Total | 21 | 15 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 47 | 107 | 110 | 145 | 110 | 56 | 56 |
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha - Phaulopsis imbricata(V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Acantahceae). Alternanthera sessilis (Robinson et al. 2010) (Amaranthaceae). Sida rhombifolia (Kunte 2006) (Malvaceae). Portulaca oleracea (Davidson & Aitken 1890; Bell 1910a; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Portulacaceae). Solanum torvum (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Solanaceae). Elatostema cuneatum (Davidson & Aitken 1890; Bell 1910a; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Laportea interrupta (Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Urticaceae).
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
Saji, K., R. Lovalekar, and J. A. Jacob. 2023. Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Great Eggfly. 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/hypolimnas-bolina, accessed 2023/12/09.