Phoebis argante
Phoebis argante (Fabricius 1775)
- Insecta
- order Lepidoptera
- superfamily Papilionoidea
- family Pieridae
- genus Phoebis
Languages: English
Summary
General comments
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=31 rearings, 16 eclosed and 15 died.
Adults are sexually dimorphic.
Life history
Foodplant Associations
Mimosoideae: Pentachlethra macroloba, Pithecellobium longifolium
Fabaceae: Senna fruticosa, Senna papillosa, Inga alba, Inga sp.
Distribution
Collected in Heredia Province, Costa Rica.


