Moths of North Carolina
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Penthesilea sacculalis Ragonot, 1891 - Long-snouted Penthesilea

Penthesilea sacculalisPenthesilea sacculalis
Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Pyraloidea		 Family:
Pyralidae		Subfamily:
Chrysauginae		Tribe:
[Chrysaugini]		P3 Number:
80a0020		 MONA Number:
5555.00
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Online Resources: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLD                                                                                 
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution:
County Map: Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Penthesilea sacculalisAlamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New%20Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey
Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

Click on graph to enlarge 		Image showing flight dates by month for High Mountains greater than 4,000 feet, Low Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain: adults.
Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Habitats are unrecorded at the few places this species has been found in North Carolina.
Larval Host Plants: Larvae have been reported on Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Robinson et al., 2010). That species, however, is a South American species that has not been recorded north of Florida along the Atlantic Coast (Weakley, 2015).
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Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: GNR SU
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
Comments: This species may not be resident in North Carolina. Our records are obscure and may represent strays from further south.

 Photo Gallery for Penthesilea sacculalis - Long-snouted Penthesilea

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Penthesilea sacculalis
Recorded by: Jim Petranka and Bo Sullivan on 2021-08-10
Moore Co.
Comment: 		Penthesilea sacculalis
Recorded by: Jim Petranka, Bo Sullivan and Steve Hall on 2021-06-08
Moore Co.
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