Bambusa wamin – Buddha Belly Bamboo

Larval Host Plant

Iambrix salsala – Chestnut Bob
Telicota bambusae – Dark Palm-Dart

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Other notes

Other Name Combinations: Bambusa vulgaris cv. wamin (WFO, 2023).

 

References:

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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.

Kalesh, S. and Prakash, S. K. 2007. Additions to larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 104(2): 235-238.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: http://worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000853568.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Buddha%20Belly%20Bamboo.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Bambusa wamin E.G.Camus – Buddha Belly Bamboo. 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/bambusa-wamin, accessed 2024/04/24.