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