Subspecies in India
(1) Neopithecops zalmora zalmora (Butler, [1870]) – Myanmar Common Quaker
(2) Neopithecops zalmora dharma (Moore, [1881]) – Sri Lankan Common Quaker
(3) Neopithecops zalmora andamanus Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 – Andaman Common Quaker
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This species has been recorded so far from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, within the Indian limits.
This is a common species.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Kerala | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 29 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 11 | |||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 9 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
| Total | 52 | 27 | 32 | 36 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 32 | 34 | 32 |
Glycosmis mauritiana, Glycosmis pentaphylla (Rutaceae).
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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
Aneesha, S., and K. Kunte. 2026. Neopithecops zalmora (Butler, [1870]) – Common Quaker. 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/neopithecops-zalmora, accessed 2026/06/08.