Dysschema magdala Boisduval
Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Asteraceae: Vernonia patens, Neurolaena lobata
Fabaceae: Pterocarpus sp.
Solonaceae: Cestrum racemosum, Solanum sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Unknown
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=5 rearings as of 2012, 3 eclosed and 2 died.
Common Name: "3 Orange Bands Arctiid"