
Subspecies in India
(1) Nacaduba hermus sidoma Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Dakhan Pale Four-Lineblue
(2) Nacaduba hermus nabo Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Assam Pale Four-Lineblue
(3) Nacaduba hermus vicania Corbet, 1938 – Nicobar Pale Four-Lineblue
The subspecies vicania is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
(2) Nacaduba hermus nabo Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Assam Pale Four-Lineblue
(3) Nacaduba hermus vicania Corbet, 1938 – Nicobar Pale Four-Lineblue

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Haryana | |||||||||||||
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Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Kerala | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Entada rheedii (Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Fabaceae).
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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nacaduba hermus (C. Felder, 1860) – Pale Four-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://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/nacaduba-hermus, accessed 2025/02/12.