Lantana family: VERBENACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Callicarpa formosana Beautyberry Wyee, February 2009	Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Worcester Gold' Bluebeard Wyee, February 2007	Duranta repens Sky Flower Sydney, November 2006	Duranta repens 'alba' White Sky Flower Wyee, March 2007
Lantana camara Lantana Sydney, August 2006	Lantana camara cultivar Lucky Yellow Sydney, June 2007	Lantana involucrata White Lantana Sydney, February 2007	Lantana montevidensis Trailing Lantana Sydney, August 2006
Petrea volubilis Queen's Wreath Magnetic Island, Sptember 2008 Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Verbena cultivar 'Lilla' Wyee, March 2007	Verbena bonariensis Purpletop Wyee, March 2007	Vitex rotundifolia Beach Vitex Magnetic Island, April 2009 Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Vitex trifolia Coastal Vitex Newtown, March 2008

A number of the caterpillars of Butterflies in Australia favour members of VERBENACEAE as foodplants, including

Strymon bazochii

Zizula hylax

Arhopala micale

Hypochrysops miskini

Junonia villida

and moths :

Diastema tigris	Cosmodes elegans	Pantydia metaspila	Lacera noctilio	Neogalia sunia	Ectropis bhurmitra
Aenetus scotti	Hyblaea puera	Hypena laceratalis	Orgyia anartoides	Orgyia papuana	Nola fasciata
Autoplusia illustrata	Sphenarches anisodactylus	Lantanophaga pusillidactylus	Psilogramma casuarinae	Coenotes eremophilae	Salbia haemorrhoidalis
Omiodes indicata	Dudua aprobola	Cryptoptila immersana	Epinotia lantana	Lobesia physophora	Europlema semibrunnea

Maroga melanostigma

Lobesia physophora

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 3 January 2013, 10 January 2024)