Idea malabarica, the Malabar tree nymph,[2] is a large butterfly found in peninsular India.

Upperside semitransparent white, sometimes slightly infuscate with a powdering of black scales.

Forewing with the following black marks: narrow margins on both sides of the veins, a dusky streak along dorsum, large sub-basal spots in interspaces 1 and 2 (produced inwardly in former), a large oval spot crossing three streaks in discoidal cell, a spot above it in interspace 11, a broad margin to the discocellulars and three rows of spots on outer half of wing, the discal series outwardly conical and curved sharply inwards opposite apex, the subterminal series in pairs coalescent on the veins, the terminal series elongate on veins and in interspaces; costa with a black streak at base, beyond black and white alternately.

[4] In December 2021, The Malabar Tree Nymph was declared the state butterfly of Goa, India.

[4][2] The species is endemic to the Western Ghats and though it is found in southern Maharashtra, its real distribution starts from Goa.