Distribution:
Collected from a number of locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Trophic strategy:
Piperaceae specialist.
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper auritum, Piper biseriatum, Piper cenocladum, Piper colonense, Piper garagaranum, Piper galbescens, Piper hispidum, Piper holdrigeanum, Piper imperiale, Piper melanocladum, Piper multiplinervium, Piper peltatum, Piper reticulatum, Piper pseudo bumbratum, Piper tonduzii, Piper umbricola, Piper trigonum, Piper urostachyum, Piper xanthostachyum
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: Siphosturmia sp., Patelloa xanthena complex, (N=32). Braconids have been observed on larval leaf shelters attempting to parasitize the larvae.
Braconidae: Unknown spp. (N=9).
Chalcidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).
Ichneumonidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).
Nematoda: Unknown sp. (N=2).
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=275 rearings as of 2012, 93 eclosed, 60 were parasitized and 122 died.