Tournefortia fuliginosa

General comments: 

Tournefortia rugosa Wild. is a synonym for Tournefortia fuliginosa Kunth. This information was accessed through The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Tree.

Leaves of T. fuliginosa have a rough texture. Flowers and fruit are white.

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Tournefortia fuliginosa see: Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 81 1818.

Geographic Range: 

Tournefortia fuliginosa is found in Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

This information was accessed through Tropicos and Global Biodiversity Information Facility Portal.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from T. fuliginosa in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest).

Habitat: 

Commonly found in open areas.

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=56 herbivore associartions as of 2012.

Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=26.

Erebidae: Bertholdia sp.; N=1.

Noctuidae: Cropia sp.; N=8.

Nymphalidae: Actinote stratonice (Latreille); N=1, Cronomella sp.; N=15.

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

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