Pseudatteria volcanica (Butler, 1872)

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 : 404

1. Pseudatteria volcanica (Butler, 1872) ( Fig. 1 ).

This brightly colored, diurnal species is recorded from Mexico to Peru ( Obraztsov 1966). Localities cited by Obraztsov (1966) and Miller et al. (2012) included the north coast of Honduras. The larva feeds on three species of Mollinedia (Monimiceae) in Costa Rica ( Brown et al. 2019). This species was photographed and collected by EVDB.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept Olancho, La Muralla Centro de visit., 1421 m, 8–10 Apr 2021 (1♂), 8–10 May 2021 (1♀), E. van den Berghe ( EAP) .

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FIGURES 1–8. Tortricidae of Honduras.1, Pseudatteria volcanica; 2. Heppnerographa tricesimana (USNMENT02007058);3, Apotoforma apatela (USNMENT02007057); 4, Rudenia leguminana complex (USNMENT02007080); 5, Anopinella triquetra (USNMENT02007043); 6, Cuproxena minimana (USNMENT00489857); 7, Icteralaria idiochroma (USNMENT02007042); 8, Netechma pyrrhodelta (USNMENT02007083).