Species Panopoda carneicosta - Brown Panopoda - Hodges#8588

8588

Panopoda carneicosta Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence # 009625

wingspan 38-46 mm

Adult: forewing and hindwing dark brown, tinted with violet gray; forewing with thin brown AM, median, and PM lines; black orbicular dot and L-shaped reniform spot (both sometimes reduced or absent); diffuse dark shading in terminal area; hindwing yellowish-brown with thin distinct PM line

[adapted from description by Charles Covell]

Ontario, Quebec, and Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to Wisconsin and Minnesota. (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

deciduous woods; adults are nocturnal and attracted to light

adults most commonly seen in June and July; Covell gives a flight period of May to August, and Ohio State gives a flight period of April to September

larvae feed on leaves of hickory (reports of basswood, oak, and willow need confirmation)

one generation per year in the north; perhaps two in the south (?)

Larva; adult

Common Oak Moth (Phoberia atomaris) is superficially similar but has a U-shaped reniform spot, dark band outside PM line, and no dark shading in terminal area

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