Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus)

Pathania, P. C., Mangat, H. K. & Sidhu, A. K., 2018, Studies on butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from Punjab Agricultural University Campus, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1), pp. 75-90 : 81

17. Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus) (Photo 17a,b)

Papilio chrysippus Linnaeus, 1758 , Syst. Nat. (ed.x): 471, n.81.

Material examined: (49♂♂ 39♀♀). India: Punjab: PAU,

14.iv.2009, Amit Katewa and P.C. Pathania (15♂ 12♀), PAU, 8.ii.2010, Vijay and P.C. Pathania (19♂ 15♀), PAU,

30.ix.2010, Sanjeev Chandel and P.C. Pathania, (12♂ 10♀), PAU, 14.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀), GADVASU, 17.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂), Orchard, 12.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂ 1♀).

Distribution: Found in Southern Europe, Syria, over a great part of the Ethiopian Region, through Arabia, Persia, and Afghanistan. Eastwards it extends to China and through the Malayan Subregion to Sulu and the Celebes ( Bingham, 1905).

Host plant: Apocynaceae (Saji et al., 2017) .