Platynota helianthes
Authors/Creators
- 1. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, The Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA
- 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560, USA
- 3. Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
- 4. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
- 5. Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Departamento de Ambiente y Desarrollo, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, El Zamorano, Honduras
Description
58. Platynota helianthes (Meyrick, 1932).
It is likely that P. helianthes, described from a female, is synonymous with P. subargentea Walsingham, 1913, described from a male. Both have type localities in Costa Rica. The species is recorded from Mexico, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Based on specimens in the USNM, Brown et al. (2011) reported the following larval hosts plants for the species: Jatropha gossypifolia L. (Euphorbiaceae), Casearia corymbosa H. B. & K. (Flacourtiaceae), Leucania leucocephala (Lam.) De Wit (Fabaceae), Mimosa pellita Humb. & Bonpl. Ex Wild. (= Mimosa pigra L.) (Fabaceae), Parkinsonia aculeata L. (Fabaceae), and Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae).
Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept. Cortés, San Pedro Sula, 18 Dec 1980 (1♂), S. Passoa, reared, possibly on okra (SCPC). Dept. Comayagua, Comayagua, 1 Feb 1961 (1♀), reared from cacao leaves, 16 May 1980 (1♀), S. Passoa (SCPC). Dept. Cortés, Yojoa, 740 m, 16 Dec 2021 (1♀), blacklight, E. van den Berghe (EAP). Dept. Francisco Morazán, [El] Zamorano, Esc. Pan. [Escuela Agrícola Panamericana], 10 Dec 1978 (1♂), 29 May 1981 (1♀) Fajardo-Espinoza, pupa encontrada en hoja, genitalia slide # 261 S. Passoa coll. (SCPC). Same locality, 14 Sep 1981, em: 30 Sep 1981 (1♂), reared from cotton (SCPC). Dept. Francisco Morazán, Zamorano central, 30 Jan 2021 (1♀), E. van den Berghe (EAP). Dept. Francisco Morazán, Reserva Biol. Uyuca, 1700 m, 21 Sep 2019 (1♀), E. van den Berghe (EAP).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EAP , SCPC
- Event date
- 1961-02-01 , 1978-12-10 , 1980-12-18 , 1981-09-14 , 2019-09-21 , 2021-01-30 , 2021-12-16
- Verbatim event date
- 1961-02-01/1980-05-16 , 1978-12-10/1981-05-29 , 1980-12-18 , 1981-09-14/30 , 2019-09-21 , 2021-01-30 , 2021-12-16
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Genus
- Platynota
- Species
- helianthes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platynota helianthes (Meyrick, 1932) sec. Passoa, Brown, Dombroskie, Young & Berghe, 2025
References
- Walsingham, Lord T. de Grey (1913 - 1914) Lepidoptera-Heteroptera. Vol. 4. Tineina, Pterophorina, Orneodina, and Pyralidina and Hepialidina (part). In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta. Published for the editors by R. H. Porter, London, pp. 1 - 482, 10 color pls.
- Brown, J. W., Segura, R., Santiago-Jimenez, Q., Rota, J. & Heard, T. A. (2011) Tortricid moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) reared from the invasive weed Mexican palo verde, Parkinsonia aculeata, with comments on their host specificity, biology, geographic distribution, and systematics. Journal of Insect Science, 11 (Article 7), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1673/031.011.0107