Thracides phidon Cramer 1779

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=6 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.

13 days from pupae to adult (N=6).

Distribution: 

Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp.

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