Abstract
Phytophagous insects can be monophagous when concerning their host plants, often completing their larval development in plants of a single genus or even of a single species. Monophagy is found in Lepidoptera and it can be mediated by secondary compounds present in the larvae's host plant. Battuspolydamas (Papilionidae: Papilioninae: Troidini) butterfly's larvae are monophagous, feeding on…