Subspecies in India
(1) Hebomoia glaucippe glaucippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Great Orange-tip
(2) Hebomoia glaucippe australis Butler, 1898 – Sahyadri Great Orange-tip
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 |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | |||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 4 | ||
Kerala | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 21 | 29 | |||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Tripura | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
Total | 22 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 31 | 59 | 33 | 33 |
Capparis (Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis cleghornii (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Capparis moonii (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis sepiaria (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Capparis spinosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Capparis zeylanica (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Crateva adansonii (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Crateva religiosa (Robinson et al. 2010; Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Capparaceae).
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.
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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Hebomoia glaucippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Great Orange-tip. 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/hebomoia-glaucippe, accessed 2024/12/05.