Subspecies in India
(1) Acraea issoria issoria (Hübner, [1819]) – Himalayan Yellow Coster
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SE Tibet and W. China to E. Arunachal Pradesh in NE India.
This species was previously known from SE Tibet and W. China (Evans 1932; 1949). The spot record (BOI-cw522 to BOI-cw525) from Kibithoo, Anjaw District, eastern Arunachal Pradesh, is the first record of the species from India, reported here on 2018/03/25.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 6 | |||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 1 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 9 | 37 | 21 | 13 | 29 | 33 | 12 | 3 |
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Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd ed. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Evans, W. H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London.
Evans, W. H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Acraea issoria (Hübner, [1819]) – Yellow Coster. 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/acraea-issoria, accessed 2024/10/11.