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TABLE 3 in Immature stages and new host plant records for eight euptychiine butterflies in southeastern Peru (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)
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- 1. Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
- 2. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA
- 3. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & Herbario Alwyn Gentry (HAG), Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, Av. Jorge Chavez 1160, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Perú
- 4. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nr Loughborough, LE 12 5 RD, UK
- 5. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB 15 8 QH, Scotland, UK
- 6. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & Buck Island Ranch, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL, USA
- 7. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & Dept. of Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru & Dept. of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- 8. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Perú
- 9. Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon, Potomac, MD, USA & Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Av. de La Cultura 773, Cusco 08000, Perú
- 10. Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Av. de La Cultura 773, Cusco 08000, Perú
- 11. Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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TABLE 3. Host plant records for Magneuptychia libye, Deltaya ocypete, and Yphthimoides renata.
| butterfly taxon | host plant (family) | references |
|---|---|---|
| Magneuptychia libye | Cyperus sp. (Cyperaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) |
| Scleria sp. (Cyperaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Lasiacis procerrima (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Lasiacis sloanei (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Panicum maximum (Poaceae) | DeVries (1986) | |
| Panicum pilosum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Panicum polygonatum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Panicum sp. (Poaceae) | Mackay & Singer (1982) | |
| Paspalum conjugatum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Paspalum fasciculatum (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Paspalum decumbens (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Setaria paniculifera (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Tripsacum sp. (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Piresia sp. (Poaceae) | Checa & Torres (2019) | |
| Acroceras zizanioides (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Ichnanthus pallens (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991); Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Ichnanthus nemorosus (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Poaceae sp.1 (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Poaceae sp.2 (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Rhipidocladum racemiflorum (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Homolepis aturensis (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Axonopus compressus (Poaceae) | Kaminski & Freitas (2008) | |
| Megathyrsus maximus (introduced) (Poaceae) | Janzen & Hallwachs (2018) | |
| Deltaya ocypete | Cyperus sp. (Cyperaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) |
| Scleria sp. (Cyperaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Ichnanthus pallens (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Lasiacis sloanei (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Panicum pilosum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Panicum polygonatum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Paspalum conjugatum (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Paspalum decumbens (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Setaria paniculifera (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Tripsacum sp. (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Yphthimoides renata | Poaceae sp. (Poaceae) | Brown (1992) |
| “grasses” (Poaceae) | DeVries (1986) | |
| Ichnanthus pallens (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) | |
| Lasiacis sloanei (Poaceae) | Singer & Ehrlich (1991) |
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References
- Singer, M. C. & Ehrlich, P. R. (1991) Host specialization of Satyrinae butterflies, and their responses to habitat fragmentation in Trinidad. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 30 (3 - 4), 248-256. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266650
- Janzen, D. H. & Hallwachs, W. (2018) Dynamic Database for an Inventory of the Macrocaterpillar Fauna, and its Food Plants and Parasitoids, of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Northwestern Costa Rica. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Available from: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu (accessed October 2021)
- DeVries, P. J. (1986) Hostplant records and natural history notes on Costa Rican butterflies (Papilionidae, Pieridae & Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 24 (4), 290-333. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266791
- Mackay, D. A. & Singer, M. C. (1982) The basis of an apparent preference for isolated host plants by ovipositing Euptychia libye butterflies. Ecological Entomology, 7, 299-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1982.tb00670.x
- Checa, M. F. & Torres, K. (2019) Notes on the natural history of six nymphalid butterfly species from an Ecuadorian dry forest. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 29 (1), 56-61.
- Kaminski, L. A. & Freitas, A. V. L. (2008) Immature stages of the butterfly Magneuptychia libye (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Neotropical Entomology, 37 (2), 169-172.
- Brown, K. S. (1992) Borboletas da Serra do Japi: Diversidade, habitats, recursos alimentares e variacao temporal. In: Morellato, L. P. C. (Ed.), Historia natural da Serra do Japi. Ecologia e preservacao de uma area florestal no Sudeste do Brasil. Editora da Unicamp / Fapesp, Campinas, pp. 142-187.