Hypercompe muzina Oberthur

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=4 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.

Common Name: "Yellow-Spiracled Wooly Bear"

Distribution: 

Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Verbenaceae: Aegiphila falcata

Asteraceae:Milkania sp.

Boraginaceae: Cordia alliodora

Parasitoid Associations: 

Braconidae: Unknown 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