[4] The humble Cuban cousin ( modestus)

Banks (1909: 171) described the new species Vonones modestus Banks, 1909 from Cuba. This species was wrongly synonymized (by Roewer 1912, see [5]) with Libitioides ornata, a name used by Roewer (see [5]) which included all American cosmetids, and subsequently forgotten.

Four decades later Roewer (1947, see [7]) described a similar species from Cuba, placing it in Platycynorta Mello-Leitão, 1933, as P. secunda Roewer, 1947 . In spite of Banks’ type of V. modestus being lost, his description matches in all details the male holotype of P. secunda (Fig. 3).

This Cuban species is extremely similar to L. albolineata and only a specific focused study will be able to establish its status. This species does not closely resemble any other Cuban cosmetid, and the hypothesis of introduction should also be considered.