Amorbia Clemens, 1860

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 : 7-8

Amorbia Clemens, 1860

Amorbia was revised by Phillips-Rodriguez and Powell (2007), who included 29 species in their treatment. They presented host records for 11 of the species, and in cases where one than one rearing was involved, polyphagy seems to be the norm, with a total of 27 plant families documented as hosts for one or more species of Amorbia . The continued efforts of Janzen and Hallwachs (2009) in Costa Rica have added many new hosts but revealed no conspicuous patterns other than polyphagy. During the study in Ecuador, two species of Amorbia were reared.

Amorbia cacao Phillips and Powell, 2007 , described from specimens from Costa Rica and Guatemala, was reported from Yanayacu by Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010). In Costa Rica, this species has been reared from Asteraceae , Clusiaceae , Fabaceae , Flacourtiaceae , Juglandaceae , Lauraceae , Rosaceae , and Sabiaceae ( Phillips-Rodriguez and Powell 2007) . In Ecuador it was reared once from Rubus sp. ( Rosaceae ).

Amorbia colubrana Phillips and Powell, 2007 was reported from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, above about 2000 m elevation ( Phillips-Rodriguez and Powell 2007). No larval hosts were previously known. In Ecuador it was reared once from Pilea sp. ( Urticaceae ).