(one synonym : Heliocheilus osmidus Swinhoe, 1901) HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups
This Caterpillar is dark green with a broad pale line along the back, bisected by a white-edged thin dark line, and edged with a thin pale line along each side. A broad pale line runs along each side above the legs.
This caterpillar has been found feeding in the seedhead of
The adult moth has off-white or pale brown forewings sometimes each with one or more white diagonal stripes, and buff hindwings sometimes with darker margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
This species has been taken in
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, Part 4, p. 406, No. 42.
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), pp. 99-100, and also
Plate 17, fig. 17.
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 16, 84-86, 173-174, 199, Plates 10, 14, 18, 22.
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, 25 August 2017, 12 April 2021)