Turesis complanula Herrich-Schäffer 1869

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, 12 eclosed, 4 died and 1 was parasitized.

Larval morphology and behavior: 

Due to the fact that all specimens reared from Pharus and other forest grasses have not been fully evaluated, it is unknown whether caterpillars of this species have more than one morph, change colors depending on instar,or if different larval morphs represent more than one species of Turesis.

Distribution: 

Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.

Foodplant Associations: 

Poaceae: Pharus sp.

Parasitoid Associations: 

Tachinidae: N=1

Parasitoid eggs were oviposited on head of larvae.

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