Papilio thoas Linnaeus 1771
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper auritum, Piper colonense, Piper hispidum, Piper multiplinervium, Piper holdrigeanum
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: N=4
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=90 rearings as of 2012, 40 eclosed, 46 died and 4 were parasitized.