Smilax Tomentosa
Liana.
For original publication details of Smilax tomentosa see: Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 272 1816.
Smilax tomentosa is found in Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and Discover Life.
1850m - 2350m (Based on CAPEA rearings).
Larval lepidopteran herbivored collected from Smilax tomentosa in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Isla de Las Palmas).
Common in the Yanayacu Forest (elevation ~ 2100m).
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= 59 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Erebidae: Dysschema nr. cerialis (Druce); N=1, Praeamastus sp.; N=1.
Noctuidae: Heterochroma thermographa (Hampson); N=33.
Saturniidae: Automeris abdominalis (Felder); N=1, Gamelia sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Smilax tomentosa Kunth is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.