Hypercompe leata Walker
Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Verbenaceae: Aegiphila falcata
Fabaceae: Inga edulis
Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea sp.
Asteraceae: Mikania sp., Vernonia patens
Araceae: Philodendron sp.
Nyctaginaceae: Neea sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Tachinidae: Carcelia flavirostris (N=3).
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=12 rearings, 3 eclosed, 3 were parasitized and 6 died.
Mean time from 4th instar to adult = 7 days; mean pupal duration = 13 days; (N = 12).