Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Sapindaceae: Paullinia pinnata, Paullinia serjanifolia, Paullinia sp., Cupania sp.
Lauraceae: Ocotea macropoda
Parasitoid Associations:
Nematoda: Entomopathogenic spp. (N=9).
Tachinidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).
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=99 rearings as of 2012, 66 eclosed, 10 were parasitized and 23 died.
Common Name: "Orange with White Hairs Arctiid"