Episimus Walsingham, 1892

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 : 8

Episimus Walsingham, 1892

Episimus includes 67 described species in the New World, ranging from the U.S. south to Chile and Argentina, plus two species from the Afrotropical Region ( Gilligan et al. 2018). Hosts are recorded for about a dozen species ( Brown et al. 2008), and those with more than a single host record appear to be polyphagous. For example, the widespread North American species E. argutanus (Clemens, 1860) has been reared from Anacardiaceae , Asteraceae , Betulaceae , Caprifoliaceae , Ericaceae , Euphorbiaceae , Hamamelidaceae , Rosaceae , and Ulmaceae .

Three specimens of Episimus brunneomarginatus Razowski and Wojtusiak, 2006 were reared in Ecuador, one from Clusia sp. ( Clusiaceae ), one from an unidentified Moraceae , and one from an unknown host. A second species of Episimus (undetermined) also was reared from an unknown host.