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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Anagogini » Metarranthis
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Geometrid caterpillar - Metarranthis
Copyright © 2014 Ken Childs

Geometrid caterpillar - Metarranthis
Henderson, Chester County, Tennessee, USA
September 18, 2014
It was found on my moth sheet so I don't know what it was feeding on but when offered a Sycamore leaf, it started munching away.

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Geometrid caterpillar - Metarranthis Geometrid caterpillar - Metarranthis
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Contributed by Ken Childs on 23 September, 2014 - 9:21am
Last updated 20 September, 2018 - 3:09pm

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2018 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 24 October, 2014 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

We stared at images of Metarranthis
for a long time but couldn't make the match. Can't figure this one out :(
… john and jane balaban, 24 September, 2014 - 10:04pm login or register to post comments

 
I thought that black slash mi
I thought that black slash might help with an ID. It didn't help me and I guess it didn't help you.

I still have the cat and am trying to rear it. Metarranthis hypochraria and M. homuraria are very common here. Do you know what the host plants are for these 2 species? The cat seems to have grown bored of the Sycamore.
… Ken Childs, 24 September, 2014 - 11:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Food
You may have found this info already but I think hypochraria will eat Prunus and apple(?).
… LaciP, 2 October, 2014 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

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