Eois nr encina 2
Taxonomy:
For evolutionary reationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar genus, Eois phylogeny see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Piperaceae: Piper nov. sp. "Pink Belly"
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae
Tachinidae
Eulophidae
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.
Species complex is yet to be determined.
Common Morphospecies Names: "6 Black 2 Pink Spots", "Pink Spots Funk"