Eois picalis Schaus
Taxonomy:
For evolutionary relationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar genus Eois, ee attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Trophic strategy:
Specialist on Piper spp.
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper colonense
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, both eclosed.