Larval morphology and behavior:
This species can jump several centimeters laterally or down and catch itself on whatever it lands on. This appears to be its primary defense.
Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Verbenaceae: Aegiphila falcata
Clusiaceae: Garcinia sp.
Araceae: Philodendron sp.
Cecropiaceae: Cecropia obtusifolia
Bignoniaceae: Mussatia sp.
Acanthaceae: Mendoncina sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: Multiple species (N=7).
Braconidae: Microgastrinae (N=4).
Ichneumonidae: (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=52 rearings, 23 eclosed, and 12 were parasitized.