Pseudomeritastis, Passoa & Brown & Dombroskie & Young & Berghe, 2025

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 : 409

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0218348-210A-4045-8E01-162384E52799
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15464430
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87AF-FF8F-FFCD-1987-FAF7FD4ED66D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pseudomeritastis
status	new species

Treatment

31. Pseudomeritastis View in CoL new species.

Three specimens of Pseudomeritastis collected in Honduras appear to represent an undescribed species. The male genitalia are unlike any of those illustrated by Obraztsov (1966) in his revision of the genus, or those of species subsequently described by Razowski (2004) and Razowski & Wojtusiak (2010). Costa Rica was the previously known northern distribution of the genus.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Dept. Lempira, P. N. Celaque, Camp Quetzal , 2000 m, 14.5261, -88.6831, 12–16 Jun 2021 (2♂, 1♀), E. van den Berghe ( EAP) GoogleMaps .