Piper peltatum

General comments: 

A number of synonyms of the accepted name Piper peltatum L. have been acknowledged 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 an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.

N=215 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Apatelodidae: Apatelodes erotina (Schaus).

Crambidae: Herpetogramma sp.

Bombycidae: Zolessia felderi (Druce).

Erebidae: Isanthrene championi (Druce).

Geometridae: Eois nr. citriaria (Druce), Eois guapa (Schaus), Eois nov. sp.

Hesperiidae: Quadrus cerialis (Stoll).

Noctuidae: Gonodonta uxoria (Hubner), Gonodonta latimacula (Guenee); Gonodonta sp., Spodoptera dolichos (Fabricus).

Nymphalidae: Consul fabius cecrops (Doubleday).

Papilionidae: Papilio thoas (Linnaeus), Papilio cresphontes (Cramer).

Saturniidae: Automeris sp.

Thyrididae: Dysodia sp.

Tortricidae: Anacrusis sp.

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

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Piper peltatum see: Sp. Pl. 30 1753.

Geographic Range: 

Piper peltatum has a wide Neotropical distribution and is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.

This information was accessed through Tropicos.

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