Eois fucosa (Dognin)
Taxonomy:
For relationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar genus, Eois see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper crassinervium, Piper hispidum, Piper immutatum, Piper pubinervulum, Piper schupii, Piper cf. brevispicum
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae: Microgastrinae (N=1).
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=27 rearings as of 2012, 26 eclosed and 1 was parasitized.