Pseudautomeris yourii Lemaire, 1985
Distribution:
Collected from several locations in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Rio Cosanga, Baeza Granja Integral).
Foodplant Associations:
Poaceae: Chusquea scandens
Ericaceae: Psammisia sp.
Aracaceae: Unknown sp.
Rosaceae: Rubus sp.
Heliconiaceae: Heliconia sp.
Urticaceae: Boehmeria sp.
Parasitoid Associations:
Braconidae: Apanteles sp. (N=4), Glyptapanteles sp. (N=1)., Unknown sp. (N=5).
Tachinidae: Leptostylum sp. (N=1), Unknown spp. (N=8).
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=175 rearings as of 2012, 18 eclosed, 19 were parasitized and 138 died.
Common Name: "Firecracker"