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).
Taxonomic name:
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.