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Black-shaded Platynota - Platynota flavedana
TL: ~7 mm. Sexually dimorphic species; males are brown with a golden band on the apical quarter of the wings. Females have several brown or reddish-brown bands. Host: Generalist feeder
Habitat: Attracted to a 395 nm LED light in a rural area
''Platynota flavedana'', the black-shaded platynota moth, is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in the United States from Minnesota to Maine, south to North Carolina and west to Arizona.
The length of the forewings is 5-6.5 mm for males and 6-8.5 mm for females. Adults are sexually dimorphic. The forewings of the males are dark purplish brown basally and yellowish to orangish brown apically. Females have brown to orangish brown forewings with dark brown to purplish-brown.. more
