Polypoetes forficata Miller

 Notodontidae: Dioptinae: Dioptini

Host plant:

Psammisia ferruginea (Ericaceae)
 

 

2nd instar

 

 

Final instar

  

 

  Pupa

 

 

 

 

Holotype male (dorsal)

 

reared female

Determined by: J.S. Miller AMNH/UNR

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA

Rearing results and development time

The caterpillars shown are from Yanayacu voucher no. 30771 (Apr 2008).

Host plants

Psammisia ferruginea (Ericaceae).

Parasitoids

Predators

Observations and Comments

Caterpillars of P. forficata have been collected at Quebrada Pumayacu. The species was described by J.S. Miller (2009, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 321: 1-1022).

Voucher location

AMNH/Smithsonian Insitution