Conservation and Special status
IUCN Red List Category: Least ConcernEndemic Status: Endemic to the Western Ghats
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This common species has been recorded so far from Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and the Western Ghats within the Indian limits. It is endemic to the Western Ghats.
Taxonomy in detail
Scientific Name: Euphaea fraseri
Authority: Laidlaw, 1920
Synonyms:
- Indophoea fraseri Laidlaw, 1920
- Pseudophaea fraseri Laidlaw, 1920
- Pseudoeuphaea fraseri ssp. wynaadensis Fraser, 1922
Common Name(s): Malabar Torrent Dart
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 | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 8 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 1 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 30 | 15 | 1 |
- Kakkasery, F. 2011. Euphaea fraseri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T175169A7116539. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T175169A7116539.en. Downloaded on 09 June 2021.
- Subramanian, K.A., Emiliyamma, K.G., Babu, R., Radhakrishnan, C. & Talmale, S.S. (2018) Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 23-29.
Page citation
Sawant, D., A. Dalvi, and S. Bagchi. 2025. Euphaea fraseri Laidlaw, 1920 – Malabar Torrent Dart. In (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. . Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.indianodonata.org/euphaea-fraseri, accessed 2025/12/07.