Argyrotaenia aff. artocopa (Meyrick, 1932)

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 : 412

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15464471
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scientific name	Argyrotaenia aff. artocopa (Meyrick, 1932)
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42. Argyrotaenia aff. artocopa (Meyrick, 1932) View in CoL .

Several specimens of Argyrotaenia from Honduras are somewhat similar to the type of A. artocopa illustrated by Razowski (1964) from Costa Rica. Brown et al. (2019) reported that larvae of A. artocopa feed on Miconia dielsii and Tibouchina lepidota (both Melastomataceae ) in Ecuador, but neither plant occurs in Honduras. However, most species of Argyrotaenia are highly polyphagous. There is no morphological information on the immature stages.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept. Comayagua, Comayagua, 6 Mar 1979 (1 adult), S. Passoa ( CUIC) . Dept. Olancho, La Muralla Centro de visit., 1421 m, 15.0821, -86.7410, 8–10 May 2021 (1 adult), blacklight, E. van den Berghe ( EAP) GoogleMaps . Dept. Lempira, P. N. Celaque, Camp Quetzal , 2600 m, 14.5261, -88.6831, 12–16 Jun 2021 (2 adults), blacklight/ mercury vapor trap, E. van den Berghe ( EAP) GoogleMaps . Dept. Lempira, P. N. Celaque, Camp Quetzal , 2600 m, 14.526, -88.683, 24 May 2021 (1 adult), blacklight, E. van den Berghe ( EAP) GoogleMaps .