Xanthosoma daguense Engl.

General comments: 

Xanthosoma daguense Engl. is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Herbaceous shrub that can reach a height of 1m. Leaves are simple and membranous.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Xanthosoma daguense: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 137 1905.

Geographic Range: 

Xanthosoma daguense is found in Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador.

This information was accessed through the Royal Botanical Gardens and Discover Life.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest, Narupa).

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= 15 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Apatelodidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.

Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.

Erebidae: Saurita mosca (Dognin); N=1, Unknown sp.; N=2.

Geometridae: Eois pallidicosta (Warren); N=2, Unknown spp.; N=3.

Megalopygidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.

Noctuidae: Unknown sp.; N=2.

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