Proseicela spectabilis (Baly, 1858)

Windsor, Donald M., Dury, Guillaume J., Frieiro-Costa, Fernando A., Susanne Lanckowsky, & Pasteels, Jacques M., 2013, Subsocial Neotropical Doryphorini (Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae): new observations on behavior, host plants and systematics 1, ZooKeys 332, pp. 71-93 : 80

Proseicela spectabilis (Baly, 1858)

Remarks.

Observations of Proseicela spectabilis were taken by G.D. while walking the main trail leading to the Cascadas de San Rafael, Reventador, Napo province, Ecuador (1300 m elevation; 0°6.07'S, 77°35.18'W) on July 17, 2011. A single female (Fig. 3g), was perched half above its larvae and half on the branch of its food plant. Six of the seven larvae in the formation were tightly aggregated around the thin stem of the plant, while the seventh larva was on a leaf a few centimeters away. A tachinid fly was present on the dorsal surface of a larva located on the side opposite the mother (Fig. 3h). The fly departed when the observer approached but promptly returned to land on the larva opposite the mother. The host plant (Fig. 3i) was later identified as a nightshade, Solanum sp. section Dulcamara .