Citrus × limon – Nimbu, Lemon

Larval Host Plant

Chilades lajus – Lime Blue
Papilio crino – Common Banded Peacock
Papilio demoleus – Lime Swallowtail
Papilio helenus – Red Helen
Papilio daksha – Large-spotted Helen
Papilio polymnestor – Blue Mormon
Papilio polytes – Common Mormon
Papilio protenor – Spangle

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Other notes

Notes: This plant has been reported as a larval host for Papilio machaon – Common Yellow Swallowtail from Holarctic region, Papilio nephelus – Yellow Helen from West Malaysia and Papilio xuthus – Asian Yellow Swallowtail from Palaearctic and Taiwan (HOSTS, 2023). It might be used in India, too, but this needs confirmation.

 

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.

Ghosh, D. and K. Mukherjee. 2018. Common Banded Peacock: Record of New Larval Host Plant of Papilio Crino from Bankura, West Bengal. Zoos Print, 33(12): 11-14.

HOSTS (2023) - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Accessed on 21 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 21 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001133139.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 21 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Lemon.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck – Nimbu, Lemon. 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/citrus-limon, accessed 2024/04/25.