Amorbia aff. cacao Phillips-Rodriguez & Powell, 2007

Passoa, Steven C., Brown, John W., Dombroskie, Jason J., Young, James D. & Berghe, Eric Van Den, 2025, Annotated list of the Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) of Honduras, Zootaxa 5633 (3), pp. 401-434 : 416

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0218348-210A-4045-8E01-162384E52799
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15464644
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87AF-FF88-FFCA-1987-FE1EFEBED2CD
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Amorbia aff. cacao Phillips-Rodriguez & Powell, 2007
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56. Amorbia aff. cacao Phillips-Rodriguez & Powell, 2007 .

A male collected in Honduras shares several features with A. cacao , including a similar unusual configuration of the scales on the vertex of the head (illustrated by Phillips-Rodriguez & Powell 2007), the presence of a patch of short sclerotized spines under the costal fold, and the general shape of the valvae. However, the pattern and shape of the forewing of the specimen from Honduras differs from those of A. cacao , and the scale tufts at the posterior edge of the metathorax are cream colored rather than dark brown.

Specimen examined: Honduras: Dept. Cortés, Cerro Cusuco , Cusuco N.P., 1600 m, 13–15 May 2021 (1♂), E. van den Berghe ( EAP) .