Pantographa expansilis Lederer

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=95 rearings as of 2012, 58 eclosed, 16 were parasitized and 21 died.

Distribution: 

Collected from a number of locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Urticaceae: Myriocarpa longipes, Laportea aestuans, Urea eggersii

Tiliaceae: Apeiba membranaceae, Goethalsia meiantha

Burseraceae: Protium sp.

Rubiaceae: Psychotria sp.

Fabaceae: Pithecellobium longifolium

Parasitoid Associations: 

Braconidae: Unknown spp. (N=7).

Tachinidae: Leskia sp. (N=1), Cordylogaser sp. (N=3), Unknown sp. (N=4).

Eulophidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).

Ichneumonidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).

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