Polypoetes bifenestra Miller

 Notodontidae: Dioptinae: Dioptini

Host plant:

Alchornea grandis (Euphorbiaceae)
 

 

 

 

 

 

Male (dorsal)

Male (ventral)

Determined by: J.S. Miller UNR/AMNH

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA

Rearing results and development time

Voucher No. 15019.

Host plants

Alchornea grandis (Euphorbiaceae).

Parasitoids

Predators

Observations and Comments

The specimen shown bears the following label data: ECUADOR: Napo; SE slope Reventador, 2900 m, 5 Jul 1994, leg. Jan Hillman, cloud forest (CMNH). Polypoetes bifenestra is known exclusively from cloud forests in northeastern Ecuador at elevations between 2000 and 3000 meters (see Miller, 2009, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 609).

Voucher location

American Museum of Natural History.