Table 3. Experimental feeding of flea beetle adults on Passiflora species in the laboratory under ambient conditions.
  Passiflora subgeneric groupings and species‡
 
Astrophea/Decaloba
  
Passiflora
 Flea beetle species†
PIT
AUR
BI
  
VIT
OER
Monomacra violacea adults
43
(2)
4
(7)
 
20
(3)
Parchicola "yellow-tibia" adults   0
(4)		 8
(4)		   13
(2)		  
Parchicola "DF-2" adults   11
(2)		 23
(7)		   5
(2)		 0
(3)
Ptocadica bifasciata adults   13
(1)		 80
(3)		   55
(1)		 0
(2)
Ptocadica "red" adults   43
(3)		 7
(6)		   1
(4)		 5
(3)
Ptocadica "yellow" adults   + +   + +
Pedilia "red" adults 20
(3)

6
(3)

 0
(3)		     0
(3)

Data = mm2 of leaf eaten per beetle; (# beetles); "+" reported in Smiley (1982). † FB genera and species identified by D. Furth, US National Museum. ID's provisional pending dissection of genitalia. ‡Passiflora species abbreviations: PIT=pittieri; AUR=auriculata; BI=biflora; VIT=vitifolia; OER=oerstedii.