Ficus pumila – Climbing Fig

Larval Host Plant

Euploea core – Common Crow

Other notes

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.

Aravind, N. A. 2005. Ficus pumila L.: A new host plant of Common Indian Crow (Euploea core Cramer, Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 102(1): 129.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 01 Feb 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000689922.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 01 Feb 2023. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Climbing%20Fig.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Ficus pumila L. – Climbing Fig. 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/ficus-pumila, accessed 2024/04/16.