Orthocomotis Dognin, 1905

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 : 5

Orthocomotis Dognin, 1905

Orthocomotis is comprised of 65 described species of large, brightly colored tortricids, distributed from Mexico to Argentina, including the Caribbean (i.e., Dominican Republic). The vast majority of documented host plants come from the work of Janzen and Hallwachs (2009), who provide nearly 100 records of adults reared from larvae collected in Area de Conservación in northwestern Costa Rica. Orthocomotis nitida Clarke, 1956 has been reared from the leaves of Nectandra martinicensis Mez , N. hihua (Ruiz and Pav.) Rohwer , N. umbrosa (Kunth) Mez , Ocotea insularis (Meisn.) Mez , O. atirrensis Mez and Donn. Sm. , O. cernua (Nees) Mez , O. floribunda (Sw.) Mez , O. puberula (Rich.) Nees , O. tenera Mez and Donn. Sm. , O. whitei Woodson , Persea americana Mill. , P. schiedeana Nees , and Licaria brenesii W. Burger (all Lauraceae ), with single records from Cupania juglandifolia A. Rich. (Sapindaceae) and Stryphnodendron microstachyum Poepp. (Fabaceae) . Orthocomotis herbaria (Busck, 1920) has been reared only from Nectandra hihua (Ruiz and Pav.) Rohwer (Lauraceae) ( Brown 2003).

In Ecuador, three species of Orthocomotis were reared: O. marmorobrunnea Razowski and Wojtusiak, 2006 on Nectandra sp. ( Lauraceae ) (n = 1); O. parandina Razowski and Wojtusiak, 2010 on Chusquea scandens Kunth (Poaceae) (n = 1), Ilex yurumanguinis Cuatrec. (Aquifoliaceae) (n = 1), Nectandra cissiflora (Lauraceae) (n = 1), and an unidentified host (n = 1); and O. yanayacu Razowski and Wojtusiak, 2010 , described from the reared material from Yanayacu, on Ocotea sp. 3 ( Lauraceae ) (n = 1) and Nectandra cissiflora (Lauraceae) (n = 1).