Taxonomic Information
This species was earlier known as the Blue Bush Dart. However, Featherlegs is an internationally standardized name for this genus, which we have adopting here now.
Conservation and Special status
IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This common species has been recorded so far from Assam, Eastern Himalaya & NE India, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mumbai and Thane, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Western Ghats within the Indian limits.
This is a common species.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 13 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Total | 15 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 19 | 5 |
Page citation
Sawant, D., A. Dalvi, and S. Bagchi. 2026. Copera vittata Sélys, 1863 – Blue Featherleg. In (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. . Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.indianodonata.org/copera-vittata, accessed 2026/02/07.