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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) » Heterogenea » Red-eyed Button Slug Moth - Hodges#4657 (Heterogenea shurtleffi)
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Tortricidia padilla? - Heterogenea shurtleffi
Copyright © 2012 Jon Hart

Tortricidia padilla? - Heterogenea shurtleffi
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
July 1, 2012
Size: 6-7 mm overall length
Found on back porch early in the AM. This was found in association with another apparent slug moth. This is the first of this I remember ever seeing.
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Contributed by Jon Hart on 21 September, 2012 - 7:07pm
Last updated 3 May, 2023 - 6:18pm

Moved, Heterogenea shurtleffi
Moved from Slug Caterpillar Moths.
… Aaron Hunt, 3 May, 2023 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 8 November, 2012 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jon Hart, 22 September, 2012 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

You sure it's not
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 21 September, 2012 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Hmmm, no, now I
have no idea what I'm looking at here....
… Jon Hart, 21 September, 2012 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Just a thought ...
It's just the only slug I can think of with black fringe. Best wait on an expert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 21 September, 2012 - 8:56pm login or register to post comments

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