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=602 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Erebidae: Amastus persimilis (Hampson); N=2, Amastus thermidora (Dognin); N=1, Lophocampa andensis (Schaus): N=1, Lophocampa atriceps (Hampson); N=1, Lophocampa nr.distincta (Rothschild); N=1, Neonerita haematosticta (Rothschild); N=1, Opharus consimilis (Hampson); N=1, Pachydota affinis (Hampson); N=1, Phaegoptera decrepidoides (Rothschild); N=2, Praeamastus minerva (Rothschild); N=3, Symphlebia tolimensis(Hampson); N=11.
Geometridae: Bassania olivacea (Warren); N=1, Erateina radiaria (Herrich-Schaffer); N=1,Synchlora sp.; N=1.
Megalopygidae: Macara alydda (Druce); N=2.
Notodontidae: Heterocampa sp.; N=1, Nebulosa yanayacu (Miller); N=179, Rhuda nr.dificilis (Schaus); N=2, Rhuda sp.; N=4.
Nymphalidae: Adelpha seriphia (C. & R. Felder); N=4.
Saturniidae: Automeris abdominalis (Felder); N=5, Automeris nr. amanda (Schaus); N=3, Automerissp.; N=2, Gamelia neidhoeferi (Lemaire); N=1, Hylesia sp.; N=32, Leucanella sp.; N=21, Paradirphia geneforti (Bouvier); N=1, Paradirphia sp.; N=2.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For original publication details of Tibouchina lepidota see: Adansonia 12: 74 74 1871.
Tibouchina lepidota is found in Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.
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Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from T. lepidota in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest, Isla de Las Palmas, Rio Chalpi, Rio Cosanga, Baeza, Vinillos, Macucoloma).
T. lepidota is found commonly in all parts of the Quijos Valley, Napo Province .
A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Tibouchina lepidota (Bonpl.) Baill. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.