| Spotted Bollworm (one synonym is Noctua fabia Stoll, 1781) CHLOEPHORINAE, NOLIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA, | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The caterpillars of this species are a
pest on:
and also feed on various other plants in the family
MALVACEAE, including :
The adult moths are off-white with a
green or brown stripe along the middle of each forewing,
and a green thorax.
The green colour is inclined to fade to brown in older specimens.
The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The pheromones
for this species have been studied.
This species is found across south-east Asia, including:
and is endemic in Australia in :
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
male
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2)
and on imported Okra in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.9, pp. 65, 458.
Johan Christian Fabricius,
Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta,
Tome 3, Volume 2 (1794), p. 293-294, No. 27.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria,
2nd Edition 2014, pp. 32-33.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 168.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 19 September 2012, 28 April 2018)