Larval Host Plant
Everes lacturnus – Orange-crowned Cupid
Neptis hylas – Common Sailer
Nectar Plant
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Other notes
Other Name Combinations: Desmodium gangeticum (WFO, 2023).
Notes: This plant has been recorded as a new larval host for Everes lacturnus – Orange-crowned Cupid by Paresh Churi from Thane, Maharashtra in 2015.
References:
HOSTS (2023) - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Accessed on 08 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.
WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 11 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000170608.
Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 11 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sal%20Leaved%20Desmodium.html.
Page citation
Churi, P. and N. Kawthankar. 2024. Pleurolobus gangeticus (L.) DC. – Salparni, Sal Leaved Desmodium. 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/pleurolobus-gangeticus, accessed 2024/04/20.