Eois filiferata (Dognin)
Taxonomy:
For relationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar genus, Eois see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper lancefolium, Piper ecuadorense, Piper nov. sp. "highland bullosum"
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=15 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.