Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Vitaceae: Cissus sp.
Piperaceae: Piper colonense, Piper hispidum
Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp.
Asteraceae: Clibadium sp.
Verbenaceae: Unknown sp.
Rubiaceae: Hamelia patens
Fabaceae: Acacia tenufolia
Cecropiaceae: Cecropia obtusifolia
Acanthaceae: Odontonema tubaeforme
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae: N=1
Tachinidae: N=1
Nematoda: 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=60 rearings as of 2012, 39 eclosed, 18 died and 3 were parasitized.
Common Name: "Hamelia Pyralid"