Subspecies in India
(1) Leptosia nina nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Oriental Psyche
(2) Leptosia nina nicobarica (Doherty, 1886) – Nicobar Psyche
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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Assam | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
Bihar | 1 | ||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Goa | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 15 | |
Kerala | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | |
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Maharashtra | 12 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 34 | 22 | 28 | |
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
Tripura | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
Uttarakhand | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
West Bengal | 6 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | |||
Total | 40 | 40 | 34 | 23 | 21 | 34 | 27 | 25 | 50 | 77 | 70 | 71 |
Capparis (Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis baducca (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Capparis spinosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Capparis zeylanica (Kunte 2006), Crateva adansonii (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Crateva religiosa (Robinson et al. 2010; Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Capparaceae). Cleome rutidosperma var. burmannii (Kalesh & Prakash 2015), Cleome viscosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Cleomaceae). Azima tetracantha (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (Salvadoraceae).
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. Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Psyche. 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/leptosia-nina, accessed 2024/12/13.