Solanum evolvulifolium

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General comments: 

Solanum loxophyllum Bitter, is a synonym for the accepted name Solanum evolvulifolium Greenm. This information was accessed through The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Liana.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Solanum evolvulifolium see: Bot. Gaz. 37(4): 211 211 1904.

Geographic Range: 

Solanum evolvulifolium is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.

This information was accessed through Tropicos and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Herbarium.

Altitudinal Range: 

850m - 2350m (Based on CAPEA rearings and STRI data).

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from S. evolvilufolium in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu 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=33 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Nymphalidae: Unknown species in the subfamily Ithomiinae; N=33.

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

Taxonomic name: 
Solanum evolvulifolium (Taxon Pages)
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