Food plants and life histories of sawflies of the families Argidae and Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rica, a supplement Author Smith, David R. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012 sawfly2@aol.com Author Janzen, Daniel H. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Author Hallwachs, Winnie Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2013 2013-10-25 35 17 31 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.35.5496 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.35.5496 1314-2607-35-17 20D4C00630D545C9A6CF19F4AE7708A5 66206110FF9AFFBDFFFCFFA9FFE25F7D 574832 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 ).