Parsonsia alboflavescens – Spiral-Vined Silkpod

Larval Host Plant

Euploea core – Common Crow
Idea agamarschana – Myanmar Tree-Nymph
Idea malabarica – Malabar Tree-Nymph

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Other notes

Synonym: Parsonsia inodora (Lour.) M. R. Almeida & S. M. Almeida (Flora of Peninsular India, 2023).

 

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 24 Dec 2022. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.

WFO (2022): World Flora Online. Accessed on 24 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000264703.

Flowers of India (2022). Accessed on 24 Dec 2022. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Spiral-Vined%20Silkpod.html.

Flora of Peninsular India (2022). Accessed on 24 Dec 2022. URL: http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/herbsheet.php?id=828&cat=7.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Parsonsia alboflavescens (Dennst.) Mabb. – Spiral-Vined Silkpod. 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/parsonsia-alboflavescens, accessed 2024/04/25.