Psammisia sodiroi
Shrub that can reach a height of 2m. Pendular flowers are cream and pink colored.
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= 64 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Apatelodidae: Zanola sp.; N=2, Unknown sp.; N=2.
Crambidae: Sparagmia gonoptera (Latreille); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=28.
Erebidae: Amastus coccinator (Schaus); N=1, Phaegoptera decrepidoies (Rothschild); N=1, Lophocampa atriceps (Hampson); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=8.
Geometridae: Unknown spp.; N=8.
Noctuidae: Unknown spp.; N=8.
Notodontidae: Nebulosa elicioi (Miller); N=1.
Nymphalidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Saturniidae: Gamelia sp.; N=2, Pseudautomeris yourii (Lemaire); N=1.
Tortricidae: Sisurcana bifurcana (Razowski & Pelz); N=1, Siscurana sanguinoventor (Razowski & Wojtusiak); N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For original publication details of Psammisia sodiroi see: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 306 306 1909.
Psammisia sodiroi is found in Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and Discover Life.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest, Vinillos, km 30 via Tena).
Psammisia sodiroi Hoerold is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.