Curetis siva Evans, 1954 - Shiva Sunbeam

Subspecies in India

No subspecies are listed under this species.

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Karnataka1811541
Kerala5411122
Ladakh UT
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Tamil Nadu111
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total5592121764

 

Desmodium oojeinense (Wynter-Blyth 1957) (Fabaceae).
Key Reference:
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.

For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.

 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Curetis siva Evans, 1954 – Shiva Sunbeam. 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/curetis-siva, accessed 2024/04/23.