Subspecies in India
(1) Tajuria jehana jehana Moore, [1884] – Indian Plains Blue Royal
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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Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
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Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 5 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Total | 3 | 5 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
Dendrophthoe spp., Dendrophthoe falcata (Loranthaceae).
Dendrophthoe falcata has been recorded as a new larval host plant by Ashok Sengupta from Bengaluru, Karnataka in April 2013.
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. Tajuria jehana Moore, [1884] – Plains Blue Royal. 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/tajuria-jehana, accessed 2024/10/11.