Oplismenus compositus – Running Mountain Grass

Other notes

Notes: This plant has been reported as a larval host for Mycalesis francisca – Lilacine Bushbrown from Taiwan, Mycalesis gotama – Chinese Bushbrown from Japan and Taiwan and for Orsotriaena medus – Medus Brown from Philippines (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 28 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 28 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000882040.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 28 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Running%20Mountain%20Grass.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Oplismenus compositus P.Beauv. – Running Mountain Grass. 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/oplismenus-compositus, accessed 2024/03/28.