Help Identify Passiflora caterpillars

[ernst neering]

I could not find the publication I referred to in my earlier message. It must 
have been published before 1974. I remember finding the ref in Review of 
Applied Entomology. If I remember well the second species was Mechanitis 
incertulas, an Itomyiid. However I could not find that name again, maybe 
it 
has changed. I think it was published in Agronomia Tropical, Maracay, 
Venezuela. More information about Nymphalidae on Passiflora can be found in

Lima, M.F.C.; Veiga, A.F.S.L. 1993. Ocorrencia de Dione juno juno (Cr.), 
Agraulis vanilla maculosa S. and Eueides isabella dianasa (Hub.) em maracuja 
em Pernambuco. Anais da Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil 22 (3): 617-618.
Lima, M.F.C.; Veiga, A.F.S.L. 1995. Ocorrencia de inimigos naturais de Dione 
juno juno (Cr.), Agraulis vanillae maculosa S. E., Eueides isabella 
dianasa 
(Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) em Pernambuco. Anais da 
Sociedade 
Entomologica do Brasil 24 (3): 631-634. 
These publications state that Dione juno juno, Agraulis vanilla maculosa and 
Eueides isabella dianasa were found on the coast of Pernambuco, Brazil, 
causing heavy defoliation of passionfruit plants. Their parasitoids and 
predators included Chalcididae, Vespidae, Formicidae, Ceratopogonidae, 
Neuroptera and Heteroptera. On D. juno juno larvae, a nuclear polyhedrosis 
virus was found. In Brazil the common passionfruit is the golden one: 
Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa.

Whan, P.W.; Belth, J.E. 1992. Second Ohio record of Agraulis vanillae 
(Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Ohio Journal of Science 92 (4): 121-122. 
In July 1990, an adult of Agraulis vanillae was observed and a larva of 
the 
nymphalid was collected from Passiflora lutea and reared in Adams 
County, 
Ohio. 

In an other, older publication, Agraulis vanillae was reported from 
Hawaii, 
in 1977.

Knight, R.J. Jr.; Payne, J.A.; Schnell, R.J.; Amis, A.A. 1995. 'Byron 
Beauty', an ornamental passion vine for the temperate zone. HortScience 30 
(5): 1112. 
Byron Beauty, a variety derived from crossing Passiflora incarnata and P. 
edulis, is winter hard in the eastern states as far north as central Georgia. 
Flowers resemble those of P. edulis, the purple (P. edulis forma edulis) and 
golden (P. edulis forma flavicarpa). Byron Beauty is the preferred host of 2 
butterflies that occur widely in the southeastern USA, Euptoieta claudia and 
Agraulis vanillae. Farther south it is also the host for Heliconius 
charitonius.

I hope with this information, you are able to identify your caterpillars

Regards,

Ernst Neering