Heliocheilus ionola (Swinhoe, 1901)
 (formerly known as Adisura ionola)
HELIOTHINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Heliocheilus ionola
(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Mitchell, Australian Museum)

The adult moth is rusty brown with one or more off-white stripes on each forewing. The hindwings are off-white with a vague dark mark near the middle, and a broad dark margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

Heliocheilus ionola
male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Melicleptria ionola,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LVII, figure 18,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

This species has been taken in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Australian Capital Territory.

    Further reading :

    Marcus Matthews,
    Heliothine Moths of Australia:
    A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 74-75, 167-168, 198, Plate 9.

    Charles Swinhoe,
    New and little known moths from India and Australia,
    The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
    Series 7, Volume 8 (1901), p. 128.

    previous
    back
    caterpillar
    Australian
    Australian Butterflies
    butterflies
    Australian
    home
    Lepidoptera
    Australian
    Australian Moths
    moths
    next
    next
    caterpillar

    (updated 7 August 2011, 12 April 2021)