Rothschildia triloba Rothschild 1907

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=17 rearings as of 2012, 7 eclosed 9 died and 1 was parasitized.

Foodplant Associations: 

Lacistemaceae: Lacistema aggregatum, Casearia arborea, Casearia sp.

Asteraceae: Vernonia patens

Euphorbiaceae: Hyeronima alchorneoides

Araliaceae: Dendropanax stenodontus

Anacardiaceae: Spondias sp.

Annonaceae: Guatteria disopyroides

Parasitoid Associations: 

Tachinidae: Winthemia sp. (N=1). Over 50 Winthemia sp. emerged from their larval host, pupating individually away from the host; 14 adult flies eclosed from these pupae.

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