Rosema deolis Cramer

(Notodontidae)

Host plant: Pithecellobium longifolium (=Zygia longifolia)

(Fabaceae/Mimosoideae)
 

Determined by: Dyer/Gentry/Jim Miller

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA

Rearing results and development time
As of October 2001, N=8: 8 eclosed.
Time as pupa: 8-10 days (N=6)

Host plants

Leguminosae: Pithecellobium longifolium (=Zygia longifolia)

Parasitoids

 

Predators

 

Observations and comments
All individuals in the database were collected in the dry season in 1999 during a mass leafing and flowering of P. longifolium in the area.
The size, shape, and color of the large dorsal pattern changes every instar.

Voucher location

 Tulane University