Lepisanthes tetraphylla – Kurpa, Four-Leaved Soapnut

Larval Host Plant

Acytolepis puspa – Common Hedge Blue
Cheritra freja – Common Imperial
Deudorix epijarbas – Cornelian
Megisba malaya – Malayan
Rapala manea – Slate Flash

cb147 , cb146 bq303 , bq302 , bq301

Other notes

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.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 20 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000446270.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 20 Jan 2023. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kurpa.html.

Page citation

Churi, P. and N. Kawthankar. 2024. Lepisanthes tetraphylla Radlk. – Kurpa, Four-Leaved Soapnut. 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/lepisanthes-tetraphylla, accessed 2024/10/15.