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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Sparganothini » Platynota » Omnivorous Platynota Moth - Hodges#3745 (Platynota rostrana)
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leafroller moth on Chromolaena odorata - looks like Platynota rostrana - Platynota rostrana
Copyright © 2020 dvoribird

leafroller moth on Chromolaena odorata - looks like Platynota rostrana - Platynota rostrana
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
January 16, 2020
Size: ~11mm
video of leaf rolling here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95854225@N02/49396001048

(background noise is Gryllus texensis and Acheta domesticus)

I didn't measure him, but I believe he was around 11mm.
I inadvertently disturbed him (I am using the plants to raise Oecanthus), causing him to have to rebuild his webbing - video here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95854225@N02/49396001048

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Contributed by dvoribird on 16 January, 2020 - 5:58pm
Last updated 9 January, 2022 - 10:00am

Moved
Moved from Platynota.
… Aaron Hunt, 9 January, 2022 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Bob Biagi, 25 March, 2020 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

 
eclosed!
Bob, this little guy eclosed and was successfully released. I think it's stultana:
… dvoribird, 1 April, 2020 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

 
OK
If you know the correct genus, then you don't need to put into "ID Request", isn't that right?
Is that adult image the same exact individual as the Cat images above?
… Bob Biagi, 1 April, 2020 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Sorry!
I am only guessing. I don't know moths and am just an amateur and mostly senile old lady with absolutely no education in this, trying to make the tiniest contribution to the bug world before I become Armadillidiidae buffet.
Yes, it's the exact individual and was raised in a butterfly cage used for Oecanthinae. I just wanted to be sure that this adult was indeed a leafroller rather than someone else who might have somehow slipped into the cage. The caterpillar had been pupating for about 10 weeks and I had given up on him. I am sure now that it was the same individual, as I was able to check the rolled leaf where he had pupated.
… dvoribird, 4 April, 2020 - 7:52am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Bob.
The only Platynota that I'd photographed before in my yard was very recent: this guy who also eclosed inside an Oecanthus cage where I use only two plants: Chromolaena odorata and Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii.
… dvoribird, 26 March, 2020 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Tyler Hedlund, 25 February, 2020 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

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