Piper obliquum

General comments: 

A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Piper obliquum Ruiz & Pav. have been accepted by The Plant List.

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 and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.

N=6 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Geometridae: Eois sp.; N=6.

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

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Piper obliquum see: Fl. Peruv. 1: 37 1798.

Geographic Range: 

Piper obliquum is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru.

This information was accessed through Tropicos.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).

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