Red-crossed Button Slug - Tortricidia pallida
About 10 mm long. Tan forewings have an indistinct postmedian and subterminal line that are fused at the costa.
Habitat: Attracted to a 395 nm LED light in a rural area.
From Bugguide:
Wagner states that "there are no adult characters (including genitalia) that can be used to reliably separate the adults of the Red-crossed Button Slug from those of the Abbreviated Button Slug." He suggests that the two may in fact be the same species. Adults with more faintly patterned wings, and larvae with the lateral arms of the red dorsal mark extending all the way down the sides of the body, are considered here to be the Red-crossed Button Slug.
( https://bugguide.net/node/view/26217 )
''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.
