Moth Photographers Group – Tortricidia testacea

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Limacodidae

57a0064 – 4652 Tortricidia testacea Packard, 1864

Early Button Slug Moth

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Distribution Data for Tortricidia testacea

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Distribution:	Suggested by Heppner as a species straying into, but not breeding in, Florida.
Similar Species:	Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:	testacea Packard, 1864 (Tortricidia) - MONA 1983: 4652 crypta Dyar, 1902 (Tortricidia) N. SYN.
Taxonomic Notes:	Tortricidia testacea Packard, 1864 includes as a synonym Tortricidia crypta* Dyar, 1902, formerly a subspecies of testacea (Epstein & Fiesler in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023).*

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)
Hall et al., 2021. The Moths of North Carolina - website (identification, habitats and life history)
Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, Pl. 20.46m, 20.47f; p. 163. Book Review and ordering
Species Page at Block Island Moths
Species Page at BugGuide.Net
Species Page at E. H. Strickland Museum
Species Page at Mass Moths
Wagner, D.L., 2005. Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press, 1-512.

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