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).
For original publication details of Piper peltatum see: Sp. Pl. 30 1753.
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.
A number of synonyms of the accepted name Piper peltatum L. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.