Myscelus amystis Hewitson 1867
Distribution:
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
Foodplant Associations:
Meliacaea: Guarea sp., Hampea appendiculata, Guarea grandifolia, Guarea rhopalocarpa
Capparaceae: Capparis discolor
Clusiaceae: Garcinia sp.
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=21 rearings as of 2012, 5 eclosed, 3 were parasitized and 13 died.