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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Slug Caterpillar Moths (Limacodidae) » Tortricidia » Abbreviated Button Slug Moth - Hodges#4654 (Tortricidia flexuosa)
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Sticky-bottomed bug - Tortricidia flexuosa
Copyright © 2009 Creuzy

Sticky-bottomed bug - Tortricidia flexuosa
Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
September 25, 2009
Size: ~0.5 inches
I found this bug on a rock. It doesn't have any obvious feet and the bottom side likes to kind of stick (but without any residue) to whatever it is on making it a little hard to pick up. It moves pretty slowly with a kind of slug-like movement. I don't know what it eats since I found it on a rock and have since returned it to the where I found it. Anyone know what bug it is? Or is it a larva of something else? Thanks.

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Sticky-bottomed bug - Tortricidia flexuosa Sticky-bottomed bug - Tortricidia flexuosa
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Contributed by Creuzy on 8 October, 2009 - 5:47pm
Last updated 9 October, 2009 - 11:03am

Thanks
Thanks for your (quick) help identifying.
… Creuzy, 9 October, 2009 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 October, 2009 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

Abbreviated Button Slug - Tortricidia flexuosa (Grt)
#4654 in the Hodges checklist, family Limacodidae. I agree that Wagner brings up a good point in that they may be the same species, but no one has separated lumped them together from morphometrics or through molecular techniques yet nor proven that they can interbreed. I would take the conservative approach and stay with the approved scientific names - Wagner did even though he had doubts. Nice picture.
… David J. Biddinger, 9 October, 2009 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

 
Sounds good
I just made a new guide page for the species; I'll add the same information that I added to the other one. I'd be interested in your thoughts on the other images sitting at genus level, here.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 October, 2009 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
Other images.
Hi Charley. Checked out the other larvae and added comments. Will check out the adult images later.
… David J. Biddinger, 12 October, 2009 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

Wonder if it might be
T. flexuosa, Wagner pg 36 ??
… john and jane balaban, 8 October, 2009 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Sure looks like it
Although from what he says, it seems like this is really the same species as T. pallida anyway. Maybe we should change pallida in the guide to pallida-flexuosa complex? Or just add a note to the guide page. I guess I'll do that.
… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2009 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

Looks like a slug caterpillar
Maybe Tortricidia?
… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2009 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

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