Heliocheilus canusina (Swinhoe, 1901)
 (one synonym is Canthylidia anemodes Lower, 1902)
HELIOTHINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Heliocheilus canusina
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth has plain fawn forewings, and plain buff hindwings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Heliocheilus canusina
male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Melicleptria canusina,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LVII, figure 19,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

This species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Marcus Matthews,
    Heliothine Moths of Australia:
    A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 54-56, 155-156, 196, Plates 7, 14.

    Charles Swinhoe,
    New and little known moths from India and Australia,
    The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
    Series 7, Volume 8 (1901), p. 127.

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    (updated 7 August 2011, 29 June 2017, 13 April 2021)