Eois cancellata Warren
Taxonomy:
For relationsip between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar genus, Eois see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper schupii, Piper napo-pastazanum, Piper hispidum, Piper cf. brevispicum, Piper beazanum , Piper sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae: N=1
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=415 rearings as of 2012, 197 eclosed, 1 was parasitized and 217 died.