Salvia tortuosa

General comments: 

Several synonyms of the acceopted name, Salvia tortuosa Kunth have been acknowledged by The Plant List.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Salvia tortuosa see: Nov. Gen. Sp. 2: 292 1818.

Geographic Range: 

Salvia tortuosa is found in Columbia and Ecuador.

This information was accessed through Tropicos and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanaycu Forest).

Foodplant Associations: 

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= 23 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Crambidae: Unknown spp.; N=13.

Erebidae: Unknown spp.; N=2.

Noctuidae: Unknown spp.; N=4.

Geometridae: Unknown spp.; N=4.

Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).

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