Table 2. Passiflora x Flea Beetle Interactions Recorded from La Selva*
 
Passiflora subgeneric grouping
Astrophea/Decaloba
subgenus Passiflora
  
 
Passiflora species
PIT
LOB
COR
AUR
BI
 ARB
COS
VIT
AMB
QUA
MEN
OER
  
latin name** morphospecies
name
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tot.#
FB

Parchicola "DF2" Yellow-legged   4   56^ 74^   3  1       3 141
Monomacra chontalensis Red-black
10
11
 1
5
 
26
Ptocadica "red" Red-white
188^
4
3
  
1

197
Ptocadica bifasciata Red-brown-white
1
86^
38^
  
 
125
Pedilia "red" Red Pedilia
145^
 
 

145
Disonycha
quinquelineata		 Five-striped
2
16^
  
 
18
Monomacra violacea Blue
5

279^
162
42
  
24
7
7
 00
15

540
Parchicola
"yellow-tibia"

Yellow-tibia

        11? 2     >1 13? 2?   53?^

82?
Parchicola
"black tibia"		 Black-tibia
       >2?       21? 13? 6?   >5? 47?
Ptocadica "yellow" Fat yellow
 
6
24
 

10

 41
  total # observed   150 482 0 323 184 1 32 36 57 8 0 86 1592

***cyanide release from crushed foliage
(zer0, Low, Medium, High, Very High)
VH
0
M
L
M
 H
H
0
M
M
H
0
  

*data = number of flea beetles seen on each species of Passiflora. ** FB genera and species identified by D. Furth, US National Museum. ID's provisional. Passiflora species abbreviations: VIT=vitifolia; AMB=ambigua;QUA=quadrangularis; MEN=menispermifolia; OER=oerstedii; PIT=pittieri; LOB=lobata; COR=megacoriacea; AUR=auriculata; BI=biflora:ARB=arbelaezii; COS=costaricensis. ***HCN data is based on a survey of over 1000 samples of Passiflora species). ^ known larval host. "?" question mark indicates uncertainty of flea beetle species for a small number of observations where hind tibia color was not determined.