Revision of Weinmannia lentiscifolia from Sat, 2014-11-08 19:29

General comments: 

A number of synonyms of the accepted name, Weinmannia lentiscifolia C.Presl have been acknowledged by The Plant List.

Diagnostic description: 

Tree.

Leaves are pinnately compound. Petioles possess "winged sructures".

Taxonomy: 

For original publication details of Weinmannia lentiscifolia see: Reliq. Haenk. 2: 52 1831.

Geographic Range: 

W. lentiscifolia is found in Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

This information was accessed through Tropicos.

Distribution: 

Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Rio Cosanga).

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=6 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Geometridae: Unknown sp.; N=6.

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