Paradirphia geneforti Bouvier, 1923

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=10 rearings as of 2012, 3 eclosed, 2 were parasitized and 5 died.

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

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