Table 1. Passiflora x Heliconius interactions at La Selva
 
Passiflora subgeneric grouping
Astrophea/Tryphostemmatoides/Decaloba
subgenus Passiflora
 
Passiflora species
PIT
LOB
COR
AUR
BI
ARB
COS
VIT
AMB
QUA
MEN
OER
latin name Heli-
conius
species
group
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Dryas iulia§       X |   XX X            
Heliconius hecalesia¶ I
X
 
 
Heliconius erato I
X
XX
 
X
 

Heliconius charithonia

I
XX
X  

Heliconius sara I
XX
 
 
Heliconius sapho I
XX
 
 
Heliconius doris

II

 
XX
 

 

Heliconius melpomene II                     XX
Heliconius cydno II
X

 

X
X
X  
X
XX
XX
X
X
Heliconius ismenius¶ II         X     X X X    
Heliconius hecale

II

   X X X   XX X     XX

††cyanogenesis in leaves
(0, L, M, H, Very H)

VH
0
M
L
M
H
H
0
M
M
H
0
†Passiflora species abbreviations: PIT=pittieri; LOB=lobata; COR=megacoriacea; AUR=auriculata; BI=biflora:ARB=arbelaezii; COS=costaricensis; VIT=vitifolia; AMB=ambigua;QUA=quadrangularis; MEN=menispermifolia; OER=oerstedii. Leaf drawings after Torsten and MacDougal 2004. ‡Heliconius species groups: I = erato lineage and II = melpomene lineage (Kozak et. al. 2015). §non-Heliconius caterpillars observed on new growth at ground level. |XX=principal host; X=secondary host. undersampled; there may be more host plant interactions than shown here. ††HCN data is based on a survey of over 1000 samples of Passiflora species. Heliconius species orderings from Kozak, et. al. (2015). [† (&#8224); ‡ (&#8225); §(§); |; ¶ (&para)]