Red-crossed Button Slug Moth

Tortricidia pallida

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Limacodidae

Tortricidia pallida, the red-crossed button slug, is a moth of the family Limacodidae described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1854. It is found in eastern North America from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota and south to Louisiana. The larvae feed on the leaves of many different types of shrubs and trees including beech, cherry, oak and willow.

Distribution

Red-crossed Button Slug Moth — (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 846Canada · 226

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda · CC-BY DescriptionTortricidia pallida, Wikipedia contributors

Red-crossed Button Slug Moth

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