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1 Record
Status
In the United States this moth has a distribution centered around the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. On the East Coast strays have been recorded as far north as New Jersey (BugGuide). There is one Maryland sighting known to MBP, photographed by Scott Houston on Assateague Island NS on 9/30/2014.
Where To Find
The Pannaria Wave Moth strays north in the fall. This species of moth should be looked for around lights during September and October along the coast.
Relationships
The major host plant for the Pannaria Wave Moth is Cowpea. MBP only has one record for this plant in Maryland from the Norton-Brown Herbarium collected by Norton in Baltimore City in 1941 by the county seed warehouse. This plant is considered a waif and due to the lack of established populations cannot be reliably considered a viable host plant for the Pannaria Wave Moth in Maryland. In an article published by the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (Matthews, Covell, et al. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 116(1):36-68. 2014.) called "Larval Hostplants of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) Collected by Dale H. Habeck in Florida" the authors found the Pannaria Wave Moth using Annual Ragweed as a host plant. If breeding of Pannaria Wave Moth ever takes place in Maryland, Annual Ragweed would seem to be the host plant of choice.
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Source: Wikipedia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Leptostales |
| Species: | L. pannaria
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| Leptostales pannaria (Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1858)
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Leptostales pannaria, the pannaria wave moth, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae.[1][2]
The MONA or Hodges number for Leptostales pannaria is 7173.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Leptostales pannaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Leptostales pannaria species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Leptostales pannaria". Retrieved 2019-09-25.
Further reading
[edit]- Holloway, J. D. (1997). Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. Vol. part 10. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. ISBN 978-9839991543.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
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