Dear Keith, I think I should have more photos of the exact plant on which they were feeding on. Right now my external hard disks are in a different place, so I will get back to you in couple of weeks. Even we were surprised initially about this plant, but thought it might be a new record. Since we were not very sure, we did not even report it. Now I am eager to go back and see rest of the photos and look for Adenia sp.
I would like to thank my good friend Adavanne Shivaprakash for spotting these beautiful caterpillars and Dr. E S Santhosh Kumar of Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram for identifying the plant. Thanks, Kishen On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Keith Wolfe <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Kishen, I seriously doubt your Tamil Lacewing cats were actually feeding on > the Naravelia, which is in the Ranunculaceae, a family that isn't a > foodplant for any species of Cethosia. I'd suggest instead that either you > mistakenly identified an Adenia (the normal host, also a climber but in the > Passifloraceae), or the Naravelia and an Adenia were intertwined. What's > more, unlike the stem in the bottom right corner of your fine photo, the one > the larvae are resting on has that thick, smooth, succulent appearance of > many Adenia. Please correct me if I'm wrong, Kishen, and thanks very much > for sharing! > > Kind regards, > > Keith > > From: Kishen Das <[email protected]<malabartreenymph%40gmail.com> > > > To: Admin <[email protected]<ButterflyIndia%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:24:46 -0000 (UTC) > Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly Photos Year 2009 > > > In the year 2010, I never visited India, so sending two pics from the year > 2009. > > Kishen > > > -- Enjoy
