![]() | (also known as Melicleptria melibaphes) HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species is a patchy pale brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
This species has been taken in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 4 (1903), p. 666a, No. 163a, and also
Plate 78, fig. 17.
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 76-77, 168, 198, Plate 9.
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(updated 16 October 2011, 18 December 2020)