Subspecies in India
(1) Eurema hecabe hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Common Grass Yellow
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This species has been recorded so far from Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir UT, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry UT, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 19 | 11 | ||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 14 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 30 | 38 | 29 | 33 | 54 | 34 | 35 | |
| Kerala | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 13 | |
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Maharashtra | 22 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 46 | 35 | 84 | 99 | 55 | 38 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Telangana | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| West Bengal | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 7 | |
| Total | 55 | 32 | 31 | 54 | 54 | 69 | 144 | 134 | 272 | 237 | 167 | 133 |
Acacia spp., Aeschynomene americana, Aeschynomene indica, Albizia spp., Albizia procera, Biancaea sappan (=Caesalpinia sappan), Caesalpinia spp., Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Calliandra haematocephala, Cassia spp., Cassia fistula, Chamaecrista kleinii, Chamaecrista mimosoides, Delonix regia, Hultholia mimosoides (=Caesalpinia mimosoides), Libidibia coriaria (=Caesalpinia coriaria), Mimosa pudica, Moullava spp., Moullava spicata, Peltophorum pterocarpum, Pithecellobium dulce, Samanea saman (=Albizia saman), Senna alata, Senna obtusifolia, Senna tora, Sesbania spp., Sesbania bispinosa, Sesbania grandiflora, Sesbania sesban, Smithia conferta, Smithia sensitiva (Fabaceae).
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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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(4): 11495–11550.
Page citation
Saji K., T. Bhagwat, R. Kasambe, R. P. Mahajan, S. Debnath, A. Bose, and K. Mohite 2026. Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Grass Yellow. 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/eurema-hecabe, accessed 2026/06/04.