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Species Metarranthis refractaria - Refracted Metarranthis - Hodges#6827

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)

Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)

Subfamily Ennominae

Tribe Anagogini

Genus Metarranthis

Species refractaria (Refracted Metarranthis - Hodges#6827)

Hodges Number

6827

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metarranthis refractaria (Guenée, [1858])

Endropia refractaria Guenée, [1858]

Phylogenetic sequence #201100

Numbers

Metarranthis includes more than 13 species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan about 30 mm.

Identification

Range

Eastern North America. (2), (3), (4), (5)

Season

Adults are most common from May to September. (6)

Food

Larvae have been reared on Prunus serotina Ehrh. (black cherry) Rosaceae and Vaccinium L. spp. (blueberry) Ericaceae. (7)

Print References

Ferguson, D.C. 1975. Host records for Lepidoptera reared in eastern North America. USDA Technical Bulletin 1521: 28. (7)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Canada

Richard B. Dominick Collection - pinned specimen

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

3.	South Carolina Moth Species

4.	Annotated list of Ontario Lepidoptera J. C. E. Riotte. 1992. Royal Ontario Museum 1-208.

5.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	Host records for Lepidoptera reared in Eastern North America D. C. Ferguson. 1975. United States Department of Agriculture 1521: 1-45.

Contributed by Cotinis on 13 January, 2006 - 10:42pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 4:33am

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