Loxophlebia nr imitata Druce

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=99 rearings as of 2012, 66 eclosed, 10 were parasitized and 23 died.

Common Name: "Orange with White Hairs Arctiid"

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).

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