Heliocheilus aleurota (Lower, 1902)
(previuously known as : Melicleptria aleurota)
HELIOTHINAE ,   NOCTUIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 7 August 2011)


from Illustration 21 on Plate LVII of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The adult moth is brown with a pale stripe on each fore wing. This specimen was taken in Western Australia.


Further reading :

Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia: A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999.


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