Eois pararussearia Dognin
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 (Rio Pucuno and Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
The type locality for this species is Loja, Ecuador (Dognin).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper obtusifolium, Piper spp.
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=9 rearings as of 2012, 8 eclosed and 1 died.