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.
As of 2012, a caterpillar was only reared from P. marginatum once.
Geometridae: Eois sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For original publication details of Piper marginatum see: Icon. Pl. Rar. 2: 2, t. 215 1788.
Piper marginatum is found in Belize, Bazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and the Simthsonian Tropical Research Institute Herbarium.
A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Piper marginatum Jacq. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.