Opsiphanes tamarindi tamarindi (C & R Felder, 1861)

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, 34 eclosed, 18 were parasitized and 47 died.

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).

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