
Subspecies in India
(1) Euploea core core (Cramer, [1780]) – Indian Common Crow
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This species occurs all over India.
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 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Assam | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Bihar | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 2 | |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Goa | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
Gujarat | 1 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Karnataka | 10 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 22 | 30 | 10 | 10 | |
Kerala | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 4 | |
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Maharashtra | 17 | 29 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 29 | 107 | 61 | 21 | 20 | |
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Puducherry UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | ||||
Tripura | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Uttarakhand | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | |||||
West Bengal | 8 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 9 | 18 | 6 | |
Total | 48 | 53 | 56 | 60 | 59 | 69 | 79 | 91 | 221 | 157 | 85 | 66 |
Adenium obesum (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Asclepias curassavica (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Carissa carandas (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Carissa spinarum (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Cascabela thevetia (V.C. Balakrishnan pers. obs. 2017), Cryptolepis dubia (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Cryptolepis sinensis (Moore 1890; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Hemidesmus indicus (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Holarrhena (Robinson et al. 2010), Ichnocarpus frutescens (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000), Nerium (Robinson et al. 2010), Nerium oleander (Moore 1890; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Tylophora indica (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) Wrightia antidysenterica (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Apocynaceae). Ficus (Robinson et al. 2010), Ficus benghalensis (Moore 1890; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Ficus drupacea (Wynter-Blyth 1957), Ficus pumila (Aravind 2005), Ficus racemosa (Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000; Robinson et al. 2010), Ficus religiosa (Sevastopulo 1938; Pant & Chatterjee 1950; Robinson et al. 2010), Streblus asper (Bell 1909a; Robinson et al. 2010; Wynter-Blyth 1957; Kunte 2000) (Moraceae).
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 2025. Euploea core (Cramer, [1780]) – Common Crow. 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://ifoundbutterflies.org/euploea-core, accessed 2025/04/23.