Eois cervina (Warren)
Taxonomy:
For relationshoip 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 hispidum, Piper cf. crassinervium, Piper napo-pastazanum
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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=11 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.