TABLE 18-2. Relationship Between Adult Abundance During 1981 and Availability of Host Passiflora in a Trailside Census
| Heliconius | Number
caught
(1981) | Abundance
Rank | Host
Availability
Rank | Hostsa |
| hewitsoni | 762 | 4 | 7 | a |
| pachinus | 873 | 3 | 3 | a, c, d, e, h - k |
| erato | 729 | 5 | 4 | c - e |
| melpomene | 249 | 6 | 8 | h |
| hecalasiab | 2 | 10 | 10 | g |
| hecale | 1009 | 1 | 1 | k |
| ismenius | 921 | 2 | 2 | i |
| sarab | 5 | 9 | 9 | f |
| charitonia | 34 | 8 | 5 | b |
| doris | 219 | 7 | 6 | j |
aPassiflora: (a) pittieri, (b) lobata, (c) talamancensis, (d) coriacea, (e) costaricensis, (f) auriculata (not naturally resident wihin 5 km of Sirena but grown there in garden), (g) lancearia (not resident at or near Sirena), (h) menispermifolia, (i) quadrangularis, (j) ambigua, (k) vitifolia. N = 9 (exclude hecalesia); P < 0.05; Kendall Tau = 0.667.
bNot natural breeding resident during the study.