Copaxa andensis Lemaire 1971
Larval morphology and behavior:
As early instar C. andensis feed gregariously.
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Lauraceae: Nectandra sp., Ocotea sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachindae: 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=18 rearings as of 2012, 7 eclosed, 1 was parasitized and 10 died.