Episimus caveatus (Meyrick, 1912)

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 : 420-422

76. Episimus caveatus (Meyrick, 1912) . ( Fig. 35 )

According to Razowski & Brown (2008), “ Episimus caveatus is recorded from Central America ( Costa Rica and Panama), the Caribbean ( Jamaica), and northern South America (French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad, and Venezuela), from sea level to ca. 1100 m elevation.” Those authors illustrated the adult and its male and female genitalia.

Specimen examined: Honduras: Dept. Olancho, La Muralla, Centro de visit., 1421 m, 15.0821, -86.7410, 8–10 May 2021 (1♂), E. van den Berghe (EAP) .

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).