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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)

Species Heterogenea shurtleffi - Red-eyed Button Slug Moth - Hodges#4657

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4657 Red-eyed Button Slug - Heterogenea shurtleffi 4657 - Heterogenea shurtleffi 4657 - Heterogenea shurtleffi Lithacodes fiskeanu - Heterogenea shurtleffi Is it possible to identify this Button Slug moth? - Heterogenea shurtleffi Tortricidia - Heterogenea shurtleffi 7/17/19 moth - Heterogenea shurtleffi Heterogenea shurtleffi
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Zygaenoidea (Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin)
Family Limacodidae (Slug Caterpillar Moths)
Genus Heterogenea
Species shurtleffi (Red-eyed Button Slug Moth - Hodges#4657)
Hodges Number
4657
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Heterogenea shurtleffi Packard, 1864
Identification
Specimens identified by DNA analysis:
Range
eastern (1)
Food
Dyar reports: "black oak, chestnut, beech, iron wood" (2)
Life Cycle
larva; larva; adult:
See Also
Abbreviated Button Slug Moth - Tortricidia flexuosa


Red-crossed Button Slug Moth - Tortricidia pallida


Lithacodes fiskeanus
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group website - Species page for Heterogenea shurtleffi
BOLDSYSTEMS website - Species page for DNA verified specimens of Heterogenea shurtleffi
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.The Life-Histories of the New York Slug Caterpillars
Harrison G. Dyar. 1895. Journal of the New York Entomological Society.
Contributed by tom murray on 22 October, 2006 - 10:07am
Additional contributions by Blocky, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 6 September, 2021 - 4:50pm

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