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=14 rearings as of 2012, 12 eclosed and 2 died.
Mean duration 3rd instar to pupae: 27 days; mean duration as pupae, 14.6 days; (N = 5).
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
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=14 rearings as of 2012, 12 eclosed and 2 died.
Mean duration 3rd instar to pupae: 27 days; mean duration as pupae, 14.6 days; (N = 5).