Solanum anisophyllum
Understory shrub that can reach heights of 3m. The leaves of S. anisophyllum have a leathery texture and are often covered in abundant moss.
For original publication details of Solanum anisophyllum see: Observ. Bot. 52 52 1870.
Solanum anisophyllum is found in Columbia, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru.
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~2350m (Based on CAPEA rearings)
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from S. anisophyllum in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Macucoloma, Baeza Granaja Integral).
Commonly found in shady areas within the Yanayacu Forest.
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=311 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Crambidae: Unknown species; N=5.
Geometridae: Glena grandillosa (Dognin); N=1, Herbita dognini (Thierry-Mieg.); N=1, Unknown species; N=18.
Erebidae: Holophaea sp.; N=1, Phaegoptera decrepidoides (Rothschild); N=1.
Nymphalidae: "Cestrum and Solanum Ithomiines"; N=232.
Tortricidae: Anacrusis erioheir (Razowski & Wojtusiak); N=1.
Caterpillars from several other families have been collected from S. anisophyllum. These caterpillars, however, failed to pupate suggesting that they do not actually feed on S. anisophyllum.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu biological Station and Center for Creatie Studies).
Solanum anisophyllum Van Heurck & Mull. Arg. is an unresolved name that is currently under review by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. This information was accessed through The Plant List.