Hypena valkeralis Schaus, 1916
Distribution:
Collected in Napo Province, Ecuador (Isla de Las Palmas, Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Foodplant Associations:
Urticaceae: Boehmeria caudata, Boehmeria bullata, Phenax rugosus, Myriocarpa sp.
Euphorbiaceae: Acalypha platyphylla
Parasitoid Associations:
Eulophidae: Unknown sp. (N=1).
Tachinidae: Unknown spp. (N=3).
Braconidae: Glyptapanteles sp. (N=1), Meteorus sp. (N=2).
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= 58 rearings as of 2012, 22 eclosed, 7 were parasitized and 29 died.