Table 10. Partitioning and populating the Passiflora/herbivore community based on larval feeding.
Passiflora Coexisting Feeding Modes (Life History Strategies)
flea beetle larvae Heliconius caterpillars
subgenus species habitat root/stem feeders leaf-feeders generalist monophagous

Astrophaea

pittieri forest
Pedilia
"red" (stems and leaves)
cydno
sapho
Decaloba biflora
auriculata
second growth
Parchicola
"DF2"
Ptocadica bifasciata
erato

sara
lobata forest
Monomacra violacea Ptocadica "red"
charithonia
edge?
Passiflora oerstedii
second growth
Parchicola
"yellow-tibia"

Ptocadica
"yellow"
hecale

melpomene

ambigua
vitifolia

forest
Parchicola
"black-tibia"
hecale
cydno

doris
other species lightly used or not used as host arbelaezii
megacoriacea
menispermifolia
forest, 2nd gr.
2nd growth
2nd growth
       
# common species 10 4.5 3.5 3.5 4.5
total # common species 10 8 8