Piper nudifolium

General comments: 

A number of synonyms of the accepted name, Piper nudifolium C.DC. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Herbaceous understory shrub that can reach heights of 0.5m.

Inflorescences are white and erect.

Herbivores: 

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.

N=1 herbivore association as of 2012.

Geometridae: Eois nov. sp.; N=1.

Larval lepidopteran herbivore reared in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).

Taxonomy: 

For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).

For original publication details of Piper nudifolium see: Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 30(1): 205 205 1891.

Geographic Range: 

Piper nudifolium is distributed from Costa Rica to Northwestern Columbia.

This information was accessed through Discover Life.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivore collected from P. nudifolium in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (Tirimbina).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith