Subspecies in India
(2) Pieris canidia indica Evans, 1926 – Himalayan Cabbage White
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
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assam | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 1 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | ||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 19 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| West Bengal | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 4 | 15 | 33 | 50 | 46 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 12 |
Pieris canidia canis - Brassica oleracea (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Rorippa dubia (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Rorippa indica (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Sisymbrium (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Brassicaceae).
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
Anonymous 2025. Pieris canidia (Linnaeus, 1768) – Asian Cabbage White. 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://ifoundbutterflies.org/pieris-canidia, accessed 2025/04/23.