Hypercompe muzina Oberthur
Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica
Foodplant Associations:
Verbenaceae: Aegiphila falcata
Boraginaceae: Cordia alliodora
Asteraceae: Mikania sp.
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Hypercompe muzina Oberthur
Hypercompe muzina Oberthur
General comments: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=4 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.
Common Name: "Yellow-Spiracled Wooly Bear"
Distribution:Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:Verbenaceae: Aegiphila falcata
Asteraceae:Milkania sp.
Boraginaceae: Cordia alliodora
Parasitoid Associations:Braconidae: Unknown sp.
N=4 rearings as of 2012, all eclosed.
Common Name: "Yellow-spiracled wooly bear".