Tephrosia purpurea, the potential nectar source for the butterflies in Jodhpur, an arid zone of Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India Arigela, Ravi Kiran Kathula, Tarun Kumar, Ramesh Deroliya, Purushottam Kumar Jeevith, S. Singh, Rajeev Kumar Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae 2024 2024-06-27 9 85 108   12)  Danaus chrysippus(Linnaeus)– Plain Tiger ( Fig. 4B; Fig. 5Eform dorippus– Appendix 1) General range of occurrence: Asia, Australiaand Africa (e.g. Madagascar, Seychelles), Southern Europe, Kuwait( Varshney, Smetacek, 2015) Occurrence and status in India: Very common Host plants of the larvae:  Asclepiassp.,  Calotropis gigantea(L.) Dryand.,  C. procera(Aiton) W.T.Aiton,  Cynanchumsp.,  Caralluma adscendens(Roxb.) R.Br.,  Cryptolepis dubia(Burm.f.) M.R.Almeida,  Hibiscussp.,  Pergularia daemia(Forssk.) Chiov.( Kunte, 2000; Robinson et al., 2010. Lovalekar et al., 2018; Nitin et al., 2018)