Native
Platynota labiosana (Zeller) (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Sparganothini)
Synonyms: rubiginis (Platynota)
FWL: 6.0-7.8 mm (males); 7.0-9.0 mm (females)
Head, thorax yellow to reddish orange; labial palpilabial palpi:
a pair of sensory appendages that project from the lower part of the head; usually covered in scales and three-segmented
long, porrectporrect:
extending forward horizontally 
; ground color of forewing pale orange-tan; patches of raised scales present in rows; subapical blotch and costal third of median fasciafascia:
a dark transverse band on the forewing 
brown; median fasciafascia:
a dark transverse band on the forewing usually incomplete; male with forewing costal foldforewing costal fold:
a flap or fold at the base of the forewing that contains specialized sex scales
present; hindwing pale yellow to orange.
Male genitalia are characterized by a slender, slightly curved uncusuncus:
a sclerotized process which is fused to the posterodorsal margin of tergum IX
; sociisocii:
a pair of lightly sclerotized setose lobes
, large, well-developed with a dorsaldorsal:
upper, to the top, on the back 
lobe; and broad, subrectangular valvaevalvae:
plural of "valva"
. Female genitalia are characterized by a broad, cup-shaped sterigmasterigma:
the sclerotized region surrounding the female ostium bursae 
; once-coiled ductus bursaeductus bursae:
a membranous tube connecting the ostium bursae to the corpus bursae
; and signumsignum:
a sclerotized projection or patch on the interior of the corpus bursae
present as a short, wrinkled band near the base of the corpus bursaecorpus bursae:
a dilated membranous sac at the anterior end of the bursa copulatrix
.
The larva of P. labiosana has not been described, but it is likely similar to other species of Platynota. See MacKay (1962a), Powell & Brown (2012), and the larval accounts of Platynota spp. on this site.
Platynota labiosana is very similar to several other species of Platynota, especially P. polingi, P. blanchardi, and P. nigrocervina. It can usually be identified by the combination of the following features: incomplete median fasciafascia:
a dark transverse band on the forewing , semicircular subbasal blotch (as opposed to triangular); and orange hindwing.
Little is known about the life cycle of P. labiosana beyond a list of known host plants. Like other members of Platynota, it appears to be broadly polyphagous. Adults have been collected from April through September, likely representing two generations (Powell & Brown 2012).
| Host plant | Host plant family | Reference(s) |
| Eupatorium sp. | Asteraceae | Powell & Brown 2012 |
| Parthenium hysterophorus | Asteraceae | BMNH collectionBMNH collection: BMNH collection. Based on identified reared specimens in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London; identifications by staff of the Lepidoptera Section.; McClay et al.1995 |
| Abelmoschus esculentus | Malvaceae | Powell & Brown 2012 |
| Hibiscus sp. | Malvaceae | Meyrick MS 1938Meyrick MS 1938: Meyrick MS 1938. Unpublished manuscript by E. Meyrick at BMNH, data captured by Gaeden Robinson. |
| Argemone mexicana | Papaveraceae | LACM IndexLACM Index: LACM Index. Records from the card file at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California; transcribed by Gaeden Robinson (BMNH).; Dyar 1902Dyar 1902: Dyar, H. G. 1902. Descriptions of the larvae of some moths from Colorado. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 25: 369-412.; Meyrick MS 1938Meyrick MS 1938: Meyrick MS 1938. Unpublished manuscript by E. Meyrick at BMNH, data captured by Gaeden Robinson.; Powell & Brown 2012 |
| Ipomopsis sp. | Polemoniaceae | Powell & Brown 2012 |
| Penstemon sp. | Scrophulariaceae | Powell & Brown 2012 |
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P. labiosana is broadly distributed in the southwestern United States, with records from east Texas west to southern California and north to Utah and Colorado. Specimens collected in Baja California and Nuevo Leon, Mexico also likely represent this species (Powell & Brown 2012). Reports from southern Mexico and Honduras (Powell & Opler 2009) require confirmation.
