''Orthocomotis herbacea'' is a species of
moth of the family
Tortricidae. It is found from
Guatemala
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and
Costa Rica
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to
Ecuador (
Pichincha Province,
Loja Province
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) and
Venezuela.
[, 2013: Accessions to the fauna of Neotropical Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). ''Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia'', 56 (1): 9-40. Full article]
Larvae have been reared on ''
Persea americana''.
References
Moths described in 1956
Orthocomotis
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