Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Lauraceae: Octea sp., Nectandra reticulata, Nectandra membranacea
Nyctaginaceae: Neea laetevirens
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: N=1
Braconidae: 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=16 rearings as of 2012, 8 eclosed,2 were parasitized and 6 died.
Approximately 20 days from pupae to adult (N=6).