Brachiaria mutica – Para Grass

Larval Host Plant

Borbo cinnara – Rice Swift
Iambrix salsala – Chestnut Bob
Parnara spp – Parnara Swift spp.
Pelopidas mathias – Small Branded Swift
Polytremis lubricans – Contiguous Swift
Melanitis leda – Common Evening Brown
Orsotriaena medus – Medus Brown

bx367 , bx366 , bx365 , bx364 , bx363

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 Lethe rohria – Common Treebrown, Melanitis phedima – Dark Evening Brown and Ypthima baldus – Common Five-ring from Taiwan (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 27 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000854176.

Feedipedia (2023). Accessed on 27 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.feedipedia.org/node/486.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Brachiaria mutica Stapf – Para 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/brachiaria-mutica, accessed 2024/12/14.