Rosema deolis Cramer

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=7 rearings as of 2012, 5 eclosed, 1 was parasitized and 1 died.

Larval morphology and behavior: 

The size, shape and color of the dorsal pattern on the caterpillars of this species changes with every new instar.

Distribution: 

Rosema deolis has been collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station) and in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).

Foodplant Associations: 

Fabaceae: Pithecellobium longifolium

Parasitoid Associations: 

Braconidae: N=1 parasitisim event (>20 individual Braconids emerged)

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