Quentalia sp1

General comments: 

This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.

N=346 rearings, as of 2012. Approximately 73 % died.

Not yet determined to species.

Larval morphology and behavior: 

Larvae feed in groups.

Distribution: 

Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Trophic strategy: 

Specializes on Castilla elastica (Moraceae)

Foodplant Associations: 

Moraceae: Castilla elastica

Parasitoid Associations: 

Tachinidae: (N=12).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith