Crocidosema lantana (Busck, 1910)

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 : 425

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.15471307
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87AF-FF9F-FFDD-1987-FD8BFDD2D361
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scientific name	Crocidosema lantana (Busck, 1910)
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90. Crocidosema lantana (Busck, 1910) View in CoL ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 41–48 ).

This Mexican species was described from Hawaii based on material introduced there for the biological control of weedy Lantana ( Verbenaceae ). It has been redescribed several times from Australia and once from Sr Lanka, with those names now recognized as synonyms. It occurs in the southern U.S. and in many places throughout Central America. Males are easily distinguished by the strongly upturned labial palpi that fit into shallow grooves on the frons of the head.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept Comayagua, Siguatepeque , 5 Nov 1980 (1♂), S. Passoa ( SCPC). Dept. Francisco Morazán, El Zamorano, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, 18–19 Dec 1965 (1♂), G. Freytag, USNMENT02007243 ( USNM) .