Rhescyntis hippodamia Cramer 1777
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Myristicaceae: Virola koschnyi, Virola sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: Winthemia sp. (N=1).
58 individual Winthemia sp. maggots emerged from this parasitized larvae.
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=2 rearings as of 2012, 1 eclosed and the other was parasitized.