Caligo memnon Felder 1866
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp., Heliconia imbricata, Heliconia wagneriana
Musaceae: Musa sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: N=10
Braconidae: N=5
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=327 rearings as of 2012, 115 rearings, 18 were parasitized and 194 died.
12 days from pupae to adult, 19.3 days mean duration time from pupae to adult (N=11).