Rhescyntis hippodamia Cramer 1777

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=2 rearings as of 2012, 1 eclosed and the other was parasitized.

Distribution: 

Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Myristicaceae: Virola koschnyi, Virola sp.

Parasitoid Associations: 

Tachinidae: Winthemia sp. (N=1).

58 individual Winthemia sp. maggots emerged from this parasitized larvae.

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