Miliusa tomentosa – Hoom

Larval Host Plant

Charaxes bernardus – Tawny Rajah
Charaxes psaphon – Plain Tawny Rajah
Graphium agamemnon – Tailed Jay
Graphium doson – Common Jay
Graphium nomius – Spot Swordtail
Graphium teredon – Narrow-banded Bluebottle

Nectar Plant

Graphium agamemnon – Tailed Jay
Graphium doson – Common Jay
Papilio polytes – Common Mormon

ca494 bq261 bj784 aw091

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.

HOSTS (2023) - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Accessed on 23 Dec 2022. URL: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/.

WFO (2023): World Flora Online. Accessed on 23 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000372954.

Flowers of India (2023). Accessed on 23 Dec 2022. URL: https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Hoom.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. and K. Kunte. 2024. Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb.) J.Sinclair – Hoom. 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/miliusa-tomentosa, accessed 2024/12/13.