Catonephele numilia esite (Felder 1869)
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva) and Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Euphorbiaceae: Alchornea costaricensis, Apchornea sp.
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.
In Costa Rica, N=5 rearings as of 2012, 3 eclosed and 2 died.
Adult C. numilia esite are sexually dimorphic.