Eois planetaria (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.
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper nov. sp. "Pink Belly"
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.
Common Name: "Rare Brownie"