Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Sierra Azul).
Foodplant Associations:
Rosaceae: Rubus sp.
Ericaceae: Psammisia sp.
Gunneraceae: Gunnera brephogea
Clusiaceae: Vismia sp.
Betulaceae: Alnus acuminata
Fabaceae: Erythrina edulis
Melastomataceae: Tibouchina lepidota
Urticaceae: Unknown sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Unknown: failed to emerge
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=10 rearings as of 2012, 3 eclosed, 2 were parasitized and 5 died.