Heliothis roseivena (Walker, 1866)
 (one synonym : Timora alarioides Butler, 1886)
HELIOTHINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

Heliothis roseivena
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is white in colour, with forewings that have a broad pink band along the costa, and two narrow brown stripes. The hindwings are pale yellow shading to pink at the bases. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in:

  • Indonesia,

    and in Australia in

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

    Heliothis roseivena
    male, drawing by George Hampson, listed as Timora alarioides,
     Plate LVIII , see Figure 6 , in Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
    (Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 22.16, pp. 467-468.

    Marcus Matthews,
    Heliothine Moths of Australia:
    A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 41-43, 149, 195, Plate 5: figs 33-39.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 162.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), pp. 1954-1955.

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    (updated 10 October 2011, 11 April 2021)