Figs. 15, 69

Tortrix (Batodes) teratana Zeller 1877: 108.

Amorbia teratana; Walsingham 1913: 212; Powell et al. 1995: 149; Brown 2005: 564.

Diagnosis. Sparganothoides teratana is very similar to S. carycrosana, but S. teratana can be distinguished by the greenish yellow scale patch at the middle of the forewing basal to the median fascia, and by the distinctive uncus, which is swollen subbasally with a somewhat cordate apex.

Description. Male. Head: Frons produced, with white to whitish gray-tipped brown to brownish gray scales; vertex roughened, white to whitish gray-tipped brown to brownish gray scales. Labial palpus short, about twice as long as wide, white mesally, brown to brownish gray laterally. Antennal scaling brown. Thorax: Dorsum smooth scaled, brown. Forewing length 8.1–9.1 mm (= 8.5; n = 3). Forewing costal fold short, less than one half length of costa; forewing ground color brown to brownish orange; yellowish brown to light brown basal fascia; dark brown median fascia distinct basally, extending from basal fascia, wide laterally and becoming diffuse, indistinctly linking to dark brown subterminal fascia; subterminal and terminal areas brown with dark brown to black rows of transverse strigulae throughout; about 30 greenish yellow scales in an irregular patch at interface between basal and median fascia. Fringe yellowish white to yellowish brown with few dark brown scales. Hindwing irregularly marked with gray. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 15; slide #JAP3197; NMNH; Panama, Cerro Campana; n = 3) with uncus long, ovately widened near base, apex dilated, dorso-ventrally flattened, weakly emarginate at tip, curved, with long setae dorsally and broad patch of spinules ventrally; tegumen raised into an exaggerated oval at base of uncus, laterally lobed near base of socius/gnathos arms; socius triangular posteriorly, secondary arms long, slender, abruptly curved before enlarged apices; apices asymmetrically widened at apex into fanlike processes; transtilla sclerotized, straight, spines short, numerous over most of posterior margin, anterior lobed process reinforced with invagination at middle; valva vaguely subpentangular without sclerotized crease, costa straight in basal half, abruptly angled toward apex, sacculus slightly concave, pulvinus absent; aedeagus pistol-shaped, tapered, attenuate apically, shorter than phallobase, attached to juxta by a strongly sclerotized process, phallobase elongate with a small rounded bulb; cornuti in a dense clump of>30, with a minute spine near base.

Female. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype: Male: PANAMA: Chiriqui, no further data, H. Ribbe (MNB).

Additional specimens examined (2♂). HONDURAS: Cortes Peña Blanca, Lago Yojoa, 21.vi.1979 (1♂), J. Chemsak, M. Michelbacher & W. Middlekauff (EME). PANAMA: Cerro Campana, 11–14.vii.1967 (1♂), O. Flint, Jr. (NMNH).

Immature stages. Unknown.