Subspecies in India
(1) Catopsilia pomona pomona (Fabricius, 1775) – Oriental Lemon Emigrant. This is also known as the Common Emigrant.
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 |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bihar | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 2 | |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 6 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 25 | 54 | 36 | 11 | 25 | 33 | 20 | 12 | |
| Kerala | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 3 | |||||
| Maharashtra | 33 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 36 | 25 | 27 | 42 | 30 | 41 | 25 | |
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Tripura | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | |
| Total | 57 | 32 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 128 | 123 | 87 | 150 | 87 | 104 | 62 |
Bauhinia racemosa, Butea monosperma, Cassia spp., Cassia fistula, Cassia javanica (=Cassia renigera), Cassia roxburghii, Dalbergia latifolia, Senna alata, Senna occidentalis, Senna siamea, Senna tora, Sesbania grandiflora (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(4): 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. 2025. Catopsilia pomona (Fabricius, 1775) – Lemon Emigrant. 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/catopsilia-pomona, accessed 2025/04/25.