Megalota submicans (Walsingham, 1897)

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 : 422

81. Megalota submicans (Walsingham, 1897) ( Fig. 39 ).

The genitalia (slide JWB-21-045) of a single female collected at Comayagua match those illustrated by Brown (2009) for M. submicans , a Caribbean species. Specimens similar to M. submicans have also been reported from southern Texas and Venezuela ( Brown 2009), but morphological variation suggests that these specimens are part of a species complex.

Specimen examined: Honduras: Dept. Comayagua, Comayagua, Comayagua, Recursos Station, 28 Jun 1979 (1♀), S. Passoa, genitalia slide JWB-21-045 ( SCPC) .

Figures

FIGURES 33–40. Tortricidae of Honduras. 33, Cacocharis cymotoma (USNMENT02007065); 34, Endothenia hebesana (USNMENT02007064); 35, Episimus caveatus (USNMENT02007072); 36, Episimus semicirculanus (USNMENT02007061); 37, Eumarozia beckeri (USNMENT02007060); 38, Megalota aquilonaris (USNMENT02007059); 39, Megalota submicans (USNMENT02007071); 40, Megalota vulgaris (INBIO CRI002062725).