Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Habitat:
Commonly found on banana (Musa sp.) plantations.
Foodplant Associations:
Musaceae: Musa velutina, Musa sp.
Arecaceae: Bactris sp.
Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: Unknown sp. (N=8).
In one case Tachinid larvae inside their larval host were hyperparasitized by Chalcid wasps (Chalcidae).
Braconidae: Unknown sp. (N=2).
Unknown: failed to emerge (N=8).
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, 34 eclosed, 18 were parasitized and 47 died.