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Paramorbia Powell and Lambert 1986

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Paramorbia Powell and Lambert, 1986

Paramorbia includes five described species from Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia; in addition, there are several undescribed species in collections worldwide. Janzen and Hallwachs (2009) provide host plant data for two undescribed species from Costa Rica. They have reared about 127 specimens of Paramorbia, and with the exception of single records from Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Melastomataceae, and Sapotaceae, the remaining (i.e., 97%) are from fern families (Brown 2019b).

Paramorbia hermosa (Razowski and Wojtusiak, 2010) was described from a series of specimens from Yanayacu, all of which were reared from ferns: Evodianthus funifer (Cyclanthaceae) (n = 1), Diplazium costale var robustum (Athyriaceae) (n = 2), an undetermined species of Athyriaceae (n = 1), and an undetermined plant species (n = 1). This species was described in the genus Sparganothina and subsequently transferred to Paramorbia by Brown (2019b) based on morphology, hosts, and MT-COI gene sequences.

Notes

Published as part of Brown, John W., Dyer, Lee A., Villamarín-Cortez, Santiago & Salcido, Danielle, 2019, New larval host records for Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from an Ecuadorian Andean cloud forest, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 720 (720) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3674915

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References

  • Janzen, D. H., and W. Hallwachs. 2009. Dynamic database for an inventory of the macrocaterpillar fauna, and its food plants and parasitoids, of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica (nn-SRNP-nnnnn voucher codes). Available at http: // janzen. sas. upenn. edu. (Last accessed Dec 12 2018.)
  • Brown, J. W. 2019 b. New combinations in Sparganothini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 121: in press.
  • Razowski, J., and J. Wojtusiak. 2010. Some Tortricidae from the East Cordillera in Ecuador reared from larvae in Yanayacu Biological Station in Ecuador (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Genus 21: 585 - 603.