Josia frigida Druce
Frigida belongs in the Ligata Species Group of Josia along with six additional species. The Ligata Group is mostly Central American, with species also occurring in the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador (see Miller, 2009; AMNH Bulletin No. 321).
Data for the larval photographs are: MEXICO: Quintana Roo, Ecosur, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, 10m, 3 Dec 2012, leg. J.S. Miller, ex. Passiflora rovirosae.
Data for the adult photograph are: PANAMA: Los Santos; Chepo, "El Mentuosa", egg coll. ex Passiflora, 10 July 1993, leg. C. Snyder, reared as Aiello 93-48 (AMNH).
Caterpillars of Josia frigida were reared in Panama and Costa Rica on Passiflora costaricensis and on P. quinquangularis (see Miller, 2009). In December 2012, J.S. Miller discovered larvae of J. frigida in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico feeding on Passiflora rovirosae.
Josia frigida was described by Druce (1885) from Las Mercedes, Nicaragua. The species occurs from Jalapa, Mexico south to Panama.