Vettius coryna Hewitson 1866
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper baezanum, Piper lanceifolium, Piper aff. schuppii
Poaceae: Chusquea scandens
Cucurbitacceae: Unknown sp.
Onagraceae: Fuschia sp.
Rosaceae: Rubus sp.
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=43 rearings as of 2012, 19 eclosed, 5 were parasitized and 19 died.