Solanum sycophanta

General comments: 

Solanum sycophanta Dunal is an accepted name. This information was accessec through The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Understory shrub that can reach heights of 3m.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Solanum sycophanta see: Prodr. 13(1): 357 357 1852.

Geographic Range: 

Solanum sycophanta is found in Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador.

This information was accessed through Tropicos and Discover Life.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from S. sycophanta 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=10 herbivore associations as of 2012.Apatelodidae: Apatelodes sp.; N=2.Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=2.Erebidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.Geometridae: Phyllodonta succedens (Walker); N=1. Megalopygidae: Macara alydda (Druce); N=1. Saturniidae: Paradirphia andicola (Lemaire); N=1. Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies). .

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