Merotoma sp

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=60 rearings as of 2012, 39 eclosed, 18 died and 3 were parasitized.

Common Name: "Hamelia Pyralid"

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