Eois nr nigriplaga Warren
Taxonomy:
For evolutionary 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 nov. sp. "Pink Belly", Piper lancefolium, Piper nov. sp. "Escabrosa"
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=30 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.