Rubus niveus

General comments: 

A number of synonyms of the accpeted name, Rubus niveus Thunb. have been acknowledged byThe Plant List.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Rubus niveus see: Rubo 9, f. 3 9 1813.

Geographic Range: 

Rubus niveus is native to Southeast Asia. It is found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. It has become established in several Latin American directions including: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Ecuador. It has also become established in Tanzania, Haiti and the United States (Florida and Hawaii).

This information was accessed through Tropicos and Discover Life.

Rubus niveus has become one of the most widespread invasive plants in the Galapagos Islands. It has the potential to severaly threaten the ecological stability of the native plant communities. For more information see attached pdf (Renteria et al., 2012).

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest, Baeza, Guacamayos, Las Palmas, Rio Aliso, Rio Cosanga).

Foodplant Associations: 

This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.

N= 1239 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Apatelodidae: Apatelodes sp.; N=2, Unknown spp.; N=10.

Bombycidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.

Choreutidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.

Crambidae: Unknown spp.; N=135.

Drepanidae: Unknown sp. "unicornio"; N=126.

Erebidae: Amastus coccinator (Shaus); N=1, Amastus persimilis (Hampson); N=79, Bertholdia ockendeni (Rothschild); N=1, Bertholdia partita (Rawlins); N=12, Elysius ochrota (Hampson); N=40, Halysidota atra (Druce); N=1, Leucanopsis sp.; N=1, Lophocampa alsus (Cramer); N=3, Lophocampa andensis (Druce); N=1, Lophocampa nr. distincta (Rothschild); N=32, Melese innocua (Dognin); N=2, Melese nr. intensa (Rothschild); N=7, Neonerita haematosticta (Rothschild); N=2, Pachydota affinis (Rothschild); N=1, Pelochyta gandolfii (Schaus); N=7, Phaegoptera decreidoides (Rothschild); N=13, Phaegoptera sp.; N=1, Praeamastus minerva (Rothschild); N=3, Praeamastus sp.; N=3, Unknown spp.; N=401.

Geometridae: Bonatea viridilinea (Warren); N=1, Cirsodes acuminata (Guenee); N=4, Cirsodes bella (Warren); N=1, Glena sp.; N=1, Melinodes glomeraria (Dognin); N=3, Melinodes sp.; N=4, Nematocampa sp.; N=1, Oxydia geminata (Maaasen); N=1, Phyle herbuloti (Rindge); N=1, Psaliodes semisecta (Prout); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=143.

Hesperiidae: Unknown spp.; N=14.

Lasiocampidae: Unknown sp.; N=2.

Limacodidae: Unknown spp.; N=4.

Lycaenidae: Unknown spp.; N=6.

Megalopygidae: Unknown spp.; N=3

Noctuidae: Unknown spp.; N=29.

Notodontidae: Unknown spp.; N=21.

Nymphalidae: Unknown spp.; N=6.

Pantheidae: Unknown spp.; N=7.

Pteriphoridae: Unknown spp.; N=38.

Saturniidae: Arsenura sp.; N=1, Automeris abdominalis (Felder); N=5, Autoermis nr. abdominalis (Schaus); N=8, Automeris sp.; N=2, Cerodirphia mota napoensis (Lemaire); N=2, Dirphia sp.; N=2, Gamelia neidhoeferi (Lemaire); N=10, Gamelia sp.; N=54, Paradirphia geneforti (Bouvier); N=2, Paradirphia andicola (Lemaire); N=1, Paradirphia sp.; N=2, Pseudautomeris yourii (Lemaire); N=2.

Tortricidae: Sisurcana cirrhochroma (Razowski & Wojtusiak); Amorbia sp.; N=1,N=2, Unknown spp.; N=7.

Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith