Platynota aff. rostrana ( Walker, 1863 )

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 : 416

57. Platynota aff. rostrana ( Walker, 1863) .

Miller et al. (2012) recorded P. rostrana from Honduras without locality data, probably based on the type locality of its junior synonym, Platynota saturatana ( Walker, 1863) . We examined two specimens in the USNM there are either P. rostrana or closely related members of a species complex. Powell & Brown (2012) gave the distribution as Virginia west to Arizona, then south throughout Central America and the Caribbean. Records from South America listed by MacKay (1962) were not mentioned, perhaps because they required confirmation.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept. Intibucá, La Esperanza-Intibucá, 17 Mar 1980 (1 adult), S. Passoa, at lights ( SCPC); Dept. Cortés, Farm llano Sec. I115 , 19 Nov 1955 (1 adult), R. Bullock, USNM slide 87,903, USNMENT02007211 ( USNM) ; Dept. Cortés, Farm Guaruma TA Sec. 23, 19 Sep 1955 (1♂), R. Bullock, USNM slide 87,902, USNMENT02007212 (USNM) .

Image examined: Honduras: Dept. Francisco Morazán, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, El Zamorano , 8 Feb 2021 (1♀), E. van den Berghe (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69425187) .