14. Rudenia leguminana (Busck, 1907)

complex (Fig. 4). Rudenia ranges from Ontario, Canada to Venezuela, representing a complex of six or more extremely similar “species” that can be distinguished primarily by DNA barcodes(see BOLD—https://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/MAS_Management_UserConsole).Based on specimen label data and one published record (i.e., Busck 1907), this complex has been reared from Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. (USNM), A. glauca (L.) Moench (USNM), A. novernicosa Isley (USNM), Gleditsia japonica Micq. (Busck 1907), Leucaena pulverulenta (Schltdl.) Benth. (USNM), Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera (Benth.) Barneby (USNM), Prosopis glandulosa Torr. (USNM), and Senna lindheimeriana (Scheele) H. S. Irwin & Barneby (USNM) (all Fabaceae). Larvae are frequently intercepted at U.S. ports of entry on the fruit of Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth. ( Fabaceae) from Mexico (Gilligan 2014). Like most Cochylina, the larva has an expanded L-pinaculum on T1 that extends slightly posterad beneath the spiracle, and a bisetose L-group on A9.

Specimens examined: Honduras: Comayagua, Recursos Station, 15 Apr 1979 (1♀), S. Passoa (SCPC) .