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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Ceruleans
  8. Common Cerulean
  9. Supported by
  10. Caterpillar hosts

Caterpillar hosts for Common Cerulean

1 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Wild Cowpea Vigna luteola 3 records

Not native to the US

5 plants, most recorded first.

  • Rosary Pea Abrus precatorius 4 records · introduced
  • Velvet Bean Mucuna pruriens 2 records · introduced
  • Tropical Kudzu Neustanthus phaseoloides 2 records · introduced
  • Green Cardamom Elettaria cardamomum 2 records · introduced
  • Flamboyant Delonix regia 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

7 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Indian Beech Tree Pongamia pinnata 5 records
  • Cacao Tree Theobroma cacao 3 records
  • Flame of the Forest Butea monosperma 3 records
  • Broomstick Trichilia hirta 3 records
  • Bemban Donax canniformis 2 records
  • Melia 2 records · genus
  • Yellow Saraca Saraca thaipingensis 1 record

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