Hostplants of the Moth and Butterfly Caterpillars of America North of Mexico

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This work brings together the enormous body of information on what North American butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) caterpillars eat. The scale of diversity and the potential interactions of 11,650 Lepidoptera with 21,750 vascular plant species are formidable, and this cannot be a comprehensive work but an overview based on major and recent sources. It offers a large body of data that is as taxonomically uniform and as reliable as the resources allow. The geographical scope is the USA (excluding Hawaii), Canada and Greenland. All Lepidoptera groups are covered and subspecific taxa are differentiated. Overall there are host records for about 48% of the North American Lepidoptera. This reference source will be useful to a wide range of biologists. Lepidoptera-Hostplant index; Hostplant-Lepidoptera index; Lepidoptera species-genus index; Bibliography & sources (c. 800 entries).