Larval Host Plant

Ampittia dioscorides – Bush Hopper
Borbo cinnara – Rice Swift
Caltoris kumara – Blank Swift
Parnara spp – Parnara Swift spp.
Parnara guttatus – Straight Swift
Pelopidas agna – Obscure Branded Swift
Pelopidas conjuncta – Conjoined Swift
Pelopidas mathias – Small Branded Swift
Taractrocera ceramas – Tawny-spotted Grass Dart
Junonia almana – Peacock Pansy
Junonia atlites – Grey Pansy
Melanitis leda – Common Evening Brown
Melanitis phedima – Dark Evening Brown
Mycalesis spp – Bushbrown spp.
Mycalesis perseus – Common Bushbrown
Mycalesis visala – Long-branded Bushbrown
Orsotriaena medus – Medus Brown

Other notes

Note: Larval host plant for Parnara bada – Grey Swift (Nitin et al., 2018).
This plant has been reported as a larval host for Baoris pagana – Figure-of-8 Swift from Thailand, Oriens gola – Common Dartlet from Indonesia, Parnara ganga – Continental Swift from China and Mycalesis mineus – Dark-branded Bushbrown from West Malaysia (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-0000882438.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 28 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rice.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2025. Oryza sativa L. – Rice, Paddy. 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/oryza-sativa, accessed 2025/01/26.