Cerodirphia mota napoensis Lemaire, 1916
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Las Palmas, Pumayacu).
Foodplant Associations:
Fabaceae: Erythrina edulis, Inga sp.
Ericaceae: Psammisia sp.
Lauraceae: Nectandra cissiflora, Nectandra sp., Ocotea sp.
Asteraceae: Vernonia sp.
Rosaceae: Rubus sp.
Rubiaceae: Hoffmania latifolia
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae: Apanteles sp. (N=1).Tachinidae: Unknown spp. (N=2).Ichneumonidae: Unknown spp. (N=2).
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= 21 rearings as of 2012, 5 eclosed, 4 were parasitized and 12 died.