Kydia calycina – Kydia

Nectar Plant

Caprona ransonnettii – Golden Angle
Caleta decidia – Angled Pierrot
Cigaritis lohita – Long-banded Silverline
Cigaritis vulcanus – Common Silverline
Euploea core – Common Crow
Junonia iphita – Chocolate Pansy
Moduza procris – Commander
Neptis hylas – Common Sailer
Neptis jumbah – Chestnut-streaked Sailer
Phalanta phalantha – Common Leopard
Virachola perse – Large Guava Blue
Graphium agamemnon – Tailed Jay
Graphium doson – Common Jay
Papilio demoleus – Lime Swallowtail

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Other notes

Notes: This plant has been reported as a larval host plant for Halpemorpha hyrtacus – White-branded Ace (Robinson et al. 2023), but needs verification.

 

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.
WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 03 Feb 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001076690.
Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 03 Feb 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kydia.html.

Page citation

Churi, P., and N. Kawthankar. 2025. Kydia calycina Roxb. – Kydia. 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/kydia-calycina, accessed 2025/05/21.