Megalota vulgaris Brown, 2009

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 : 422-423

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15471287
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scientific name	Megalota vulgaris Brown, 2009
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82. Megalota vulgaris Brown, 2009 ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 33–40 ).

Megalota vulgaris is recorded from Guatemala south to Costa Rica, with the vast majority of specimens from lowland rainforest localities below about 200 m. The early stages and larval food plant are unknown; adults have been collected throughout the year in Costa Rica, with many fewer records from June through September. We examined three specimens of this species from Honduras, which represent the first records for the country.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept. Comayagua, Comayagua, Comayagua, Recursos Station, 3 Sep 1979 (1♂), S. Passoa ( USNM) . Dept. Cortés, San Pedro Sula, 21 Mar 1972 (1♂), R. Lehman ( USNM) . Honduras, Dept. Francisco Morazán, [El] Zamorano central, 22–30 Jan 2021 (1♂), E. van den Berghe (EAP) .

Image examined: Honduras: Dept. Francisco Morazán, El Zamorano, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, 19 Feb 2021, E. van den Berghe. (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69815297) .