Scobina lepida (Klug)

Smith, David R., Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2013, Food plants and life histories of sawflies of the families Argidae and Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rica, a supplement, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 35, pp. 17-31 : 21

Scobina lepida (Klug) Fig. 19

Hylotoma lepida Klug, 1834: 239.

Scobina lepida : Smith 1992: 26.

Remarks.

This is one of the more common species of Scobina in Central America, but the host plant was not known. Scobina includes about 50 species from Mexico to Argentina, and they were keyed by Smith (1992). Host information was known for only three species, Scobina guatemalensis (Dalla Torre), Scobina consobrina (Norton), and Scobina notaticollis (Konow), all of which fed on the foliage of Sida ( Malvaceae ).

Distribution.

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz), Nicaragua, Panama ( Smith 1992).

Food plant and biology.

One larva (07-SRNP-40019) was found eating mature leaves of rain forest Sida rhombifolia L. ( Malvaceae ), a common pasture and roadside woody herb. The fibrous, oval cocoon was on a leaf ( Fig. 19 ).

Figures

Figures 16 - 22. 16 Adult of Eriglenum tristum 17 Cocoon of Atomacera josefernandezi on leaf 18 Cocoon of Eriglenum tristum on leaf 19 cocoon of Scobina lepida 20 Larva of Scobina notaticollis 21, 22 Larvae of Waldheimia lucianocapellii.