Piper lanceaefolium  

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.

Costa Rica:

N=5 herbivore associations as of 2012.

Nymphalidae: Consul fabius cecrops (Doubleday); N=2.

Tortricidae: Anacrusis sp.; N=2.

Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).

Ecuador:

N= 6841 herbivore assocations as of 2012.

Erebidae: Phaegoptera decrepidoides (Rothschild); N=1,

Geometridae: Eois olivacea (Felder & Rogenhofer); N=6120, Eois quadrilatera (Dognin); N=36. Eois encina complex (Dognin); N=2, Eois filiferata (Dognin); N=3, Eois nr. nigripalpa (Warren); N=1, Eois zorra (Dognin); N=1, Eois nov. spp.; N=409, Semiothisa regressa (Dognin); N=1.

Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyge papius papius (Hopffer); N=1, Vettius coryna coryna (Hewitson); N=1.

Nymphalidae: Actinote diceus (Latreille); N=2, Actinote stratonice (Latreille); N=5, Heliconius telesiphe (Doubelday); N=1.

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