Sparganothini

Brown, John W., Dyer, Lee A., Villamarín-Cortez, Santiago & Salcido, Danielle, 2019, New larval host records for Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from an Ecuadorian Andean cloud forest, Insecta Mundi 720 (720), pp. 1-12 : 7

Sparganothini

With about 250 described species, Sparganothini are nearly restricted to the New World, with only a handful of species that occur in the Palearctic ( Powell and Brown 2012). The group has been the subject of considerable recent systematic work with nearly half of the known fauna described since 2005. With exceedingly few exceptions, species of Sparganothini are polyphagous, and although considerable biological information is available for several Nearctic species, owing their pest status, host plant data for Neotropical species were scarce until the work of Janzen and Hallwachs (2009). In Costa Rica, hosts are known for about 40 species, with the data confirming previous concepts of polyphagy for all but Sparganocosma Brown, 2013 ( Brown et al. 2013) and Paramorbia Powell and Lambert, 1986 .