Acraea issoria – Yellow Coster
Pseudergolis wedah – Tabby
Vanessa cardui – Painted Lady
Other Name Combinations: Debregeasia hypoleuca (WFO, 2023).
Note: This plant has been recorded as larval host for Symbrenthia lilaea – Northern Common Jester from 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 17 Jan 2023. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.
WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 17 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000638911.
Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 17 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Himalayan%20Wild%20Rhea.html.
Churi, P. and N. Kawthankar. 2024. Debregeasia saeneb (Forssk.) Hepper & J.R.I.Wood – Himalayan Wild Rhea. 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/debregeasia-saeneb, accessed 2024/12/04.