Larval Host Plant
Other notes
Note: This plant has been reported as a larval host for Melanitis leda – Common Evening Brown from Korea (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.
HOSTS (2023) - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.
WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000860428.
Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Job%27s%20Tears.html.
Page citation
Kawthankar, N. 2024. Coix lacryma-jobi L. – Vaijayanti, Job's Tears. 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/coix-lacryma-jobi, accessed 2024/04/16.