Leptostales laevitaria explained

Leptostales laevitaria, the raspberry wave moth, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae (the geometer moths). It was first described by Geyer in 1837 and it is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Leptostales laevitaria is 7177.

Further reading

• Book: Beadle . David. Leckie . Seabrooke. 2012. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 0547238487.
• Book: Covell . Charles V. Jr.. 2005. A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 1-884549-21-7.
• Book: Grote . Aug.R.. Robinson . C.T.. 1868. List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner. J.B.. 2003. Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. 0066-8036. 2018-03-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20180423112356/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf. 2018-04-23. dead.
• Book: Hodges . Ronald W.. 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. 9780860960164.
• Book: Holloway . J.D.. 1997. Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. part 10. 983999154X.
• Pohl . Greg. Patterson . Bob. Pelham . Jonathan. 2016. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. free.
• Book: Powell . Jerry A.. Opler . Paul A.. 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. 9780520251977.
• Sihvonen . Pasi. 2005. Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geomtridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143. 4. 473–530. 0024-4082.
• Yamamoto . Satoshi. Sota . Teiji. 2007. Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44. 711–723. 1055-7903.