Toddalia asiatica – Orange Climber

Larval Host Plant

Hasora chromus – Common Banded Awl
Papilio helenus – Red Helen
Papilio daksha – Large-spotted Helen
Papilio paris – Paris Peacock
Colotis amata – Small Salmon Arab

cd536 , cd535 , cd534 bp046 , bp045

Other notes

Notes: This plant has been reported as a larval host for Papilio crino – Common Banded Peacock from Sri Lanka (Jayasinghe et al. 2014) and for Papilio castor – Common Raven, Papilio demoleus – Lime Swallowtail and Papilio memnon – Great Mormon from Taiwan (HOSTS, 2023). It might be used in India, too, but this needs confirmation.

 

References:
Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 23 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Orange%20Climber.html.
HOSTS (2023) - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Accessed on 23 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.
Jayasinghe, H., Rajapaksha, S., & de Alwis, C. (2014). A compilation and analysis of food plants utilization of Sri Lankan butterfly larvae (Papilionoidea). Taprobanica, 6(2): 110-131. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/tapro.v6i2.7193.
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(4):11495–11550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.
WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 23 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000455337.

 

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2025. Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam. – Orange Climber. 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/toddalia-asiatica, accessed 2025/05/21.