Table 2. Passiflora x flea beetle 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
  
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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; bold indicates known larval host. ‡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. §Flea beetle genera and species identified by D. Furth, US National Museum. ID's provisional. Species ordering to facilitate comparison with Figure 1, with Astrophaea/Decaloba feeders first, followed by subgenus Passiflora feeeders. ¶ indicates uncertainty of flea beetle species for about 50 observations where hind tibia color was not determined. ††HCN data is based on a survey of over 1000 samples of Passiflora species; see text.