| HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, listed as Melicleptria osmida,
Figure 17 on
Plate LVII of Hampson's
Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of
Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)
The adult moth has brown forewings with a white diagonal stripe on each one, and buff hindwings. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
This species has been taken in
Further reading :
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera No. 7, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999.
Charles Swinhoe,
New and little known moths from India and Australia,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 7, Volume 8 (1901), p. 126.
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(updated 8 August 2011)
