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=4 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Crambidae: Uknown sp.; N=1.
Geometridae: Eois nov. sp.; N=2.
Noctuidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details of Piper secundum see: Fl. Peruv. 1: 36, t. 62 36 1798.
Piper secundum is found in Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
This information was accessed through Tropicos, Discover Life and CAPEA rearing data.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. secundum in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
A number of synonyms of the accepted name, Piper secundum Ruiz and Pav. have been recognized by The Plant List.