LIFE HISTORY
DATA
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Caterpillar
common name:
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- "Disco
Ball"
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Caterpillar
behavior & description:
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- The larvae of this species
are solitary feeders
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Rearing results
and development time:
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Host
plants:
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- Critoniopsis
occidentalis (Asteraceae)
- Barnadesia parviflora
(Asteraceae)
- Clibadium glabrescens
(Asteraceae)
- Mikania sp. (Asteraceae)
- Barnadesia parviflora
(Asteraceae)
- Adenostemma harlingii
(Asteraceae)
- Erato polymnioides
(Asteraceae)
- Chusquea scandens
(Poaceae)
- unknown plant species in
the Solanaceae
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Parasitoids:
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- Larvae are parasitized by
tachinid flies, which develop internally and pupate away
from the larva.
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Predators:
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Collection
sites:
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- Caterpillars were collected
inside primary forests, partially reforested pastures and
next to roads along an altitudinal transect from 400m
(Tena) to 3500m (Papallacta) in the vicinity of the
Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative
Studies (YBS: S 00° 35.9' W 77° 53.4': 2100 m),
5km west of Cosanga, Napo province of eastern Ecuador.
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Voucher locations
& numbers:
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- @ American Museum of
Natural History : 14523, 15298, 25832, 26693,
28033, 35432, 35753, 36090, 36212
- @ University of Nevada
Reno (UNR): 1250, 2805, 2835, 11294,
13788
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Adult
identification status:
Dissections:
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- Compared with type
collection @BMNH, collections @, USNM
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- No previous dissections
by authors or subsequent taxonomists
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Original description
of adult:
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- Walker F. 1865. List of
the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection
of the British Museum 31: 155. London.
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Type
locality:
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- Colombia:
"Bogota".
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Known distribution
range:
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