Table 3. Experimental survival, feeding and growth of flea beetle adults on Passiflora species.
 
Passiflora subgeneric grouping
Astrophea/Decaloba
  
Passiflora
 
Passiflora species
PIT
LOB
COR
AUR
BI
 ARB
COS
  
VIT
AMB
QUA
MEN
OER
Flea Beetle
species **		  
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Monomacra violacea adults    
85
(2)
27
(7)
 
 
 
60
(3)
Parchicola "yellow-tibia" adults           0
(4)		 30
(4)		       25
(2)		        
Parchicola "DF-2" adults           22
(2)		 160
(7)		       10
(2)		       0
(3)
Ptocadica bifasciata adults           13
(1)		 240
(3)		       55
(1)		       0
(2)
Ptocadica "red" adults           130
(3)		 40
(6)		       5
(4)		       15
(3)
Ptocadica "yellow" adults           + +       + +     +
Pedilia "red" adults     60
(3)		     18
(3)		 0
(3)		               0
(3)
                               

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

*Data = mm2 eaten ; (# beetles tested). ** FB genera and species identified by D. Furth, US National Museum. ID's provisional pending dissection of genitalia. ***HCN data from figure X. "+" reported in Smiley (1982). 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.