Tigridia acesta (Linnaeus, 1758)

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= 36 rearings, 28 eclosed, 7 died and 1 was parasitized.

Distribution: 

Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Cecropiaceae: Cecropia obtusifolia, Cecropia sp., Pourouma bicolor, Pourouma sp., Coussapoa nymphaefolia

Sapindaceae: Paullinia fibrigera

Parasitoid Associations: 

Tachinidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).

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