Ithomia diasa hippocrenis Bates, 1866

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=62 rearings as of 2012, 47 eclosed, 14 died and 1 was parasitized.

Distribution: 

Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Solonaceae: Witheringia asterotricha, Solanum siparunoides

Burseraceae: Protium glabrum

Urticaceae: Myriocarpa longipes

Rubiaceae: Randia sp.

Parasitoid Associations: 

Unknown: failed to emerge (N=1).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith