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Pentobesa poecila (Felder)
Pentobesa poecila (Felder)
Geographic Range:In northeastern Ecuador, P. poecila has been recorded at elevations between 2000 and 1000 meters. The adult specimen shown bears the following label data: ECUADOR: Napo; Galeras, Río Papancu, 11.3 km SE Loreto-Coca Rd. on road to Communidad Pueblo Nuevo, 990 m, 2 Oct 2004, leg. J.S. Miller & E. Tapia, MV light.
Foodplant Associations:Pentobesa poecila has been reared on Myrica pubescens and on an unidentified species of Inga (both Mimosaceae).
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.