Subspecies in India
(1) Nacaduba pactolus continentalis Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Continental Large Four-Lineblue
(2) Nacaduba pactolus andamanica Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Andaman Large Four-Lineblue
(3) Nacaduba pactolus macrophthalma (C. Felder, 1862) – Nicobar Large Four-Lineblue
(2) Nacaduba pactolus andamanica Fruhstorfer, 1916 – Andaman Large Four-Lineblue
(3) Nacaduba pactolus macrophthalma (C. Felder, 1862) – Nicobar Large Four-Lineblue
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 | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Karnataka | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Entada rheedii (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017) (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, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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.
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nacaduba pactolus (C. Felder, 1860) – Large Four-Lineblue. 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/nacaduba-pactolus, accessed 2025/02/16.