Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Adult behavior:
Adult is a Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) mimic.
Foodplant Associations:
Lauraceae: Nectandra reticulata
Asteraceae: Milkania guaco, Vernonia patens, Milkania sp.
Urticaeae: Myriocarpa longepis
Vitaceae: Unknown
Piperaceae: Piper biseriatum, Pothomorphe peltata
Dilleniaceae: Unknown
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae
Taxonomic name:
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=48 rearings as of 2012, 39 eclosed, 2 were parasitized and 7 died.
Approximately 20 days from pupa to adult (N=12).