![]() | some synonyms are: Plusia abeona Druce 1889, Plusia roxana Druce 1894. | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMIllan,
Imbil, Queensland)
The Caterpillar of this species normally feeds on
The adult moth has brown forewings, each with a pale line and a red splodge. The hindwings are fawn shading darker toward the margin. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
This species occurs naturally in
The larval foodplant (Lantana) is an unwanted weed in Australia. After studies by George Diatloff over 1974-1976, in the hope that it might help control the weed, the species was introduced deliberately, from Colombia, into Australia in
but in 2012 was said to have died out in Australia, but has lately (2020) been re-found in
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 6 (1852), p. 328, No. 1137. (listed as as Plusia illustrata)
Herbert Druce,
Insecta: Lepidoptera: Heterocera; Supplement: Noctuidae,
Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology,
Volume 1 (1891-1900), p. 332, No. 15. and also
Plate 30, fig. 16. (listed as Plusia abeona)
Herbert Druce,
Insecta: Lepidoptera: Heterocera; Supplement: Noctuidae,
Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology,
Volume 2 (1891-1900), pp. 503-504, No. 15A. and also
Plate 96, fig. 11. (listed as Plusia roxana)
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer,
Die Schmetterlinge der Insel Cuba,
Correspondenz Blatt Zoologische-Mineralogischen Vereines in Regensburg,
Volume 22 (1868), p. 183. (listed as Plusia egenella)
Gowdey,
1926, p. 67 (listed as Syngrapha illustrata)
Lafontaine & Poole,
NOCTUOIDEA: Noctuidae,
The Moths of America North of Mexico,
Volume 25, Part 1 (1991), pl. 1, figs. 19 & 20 (adult); pl. B, figs. 6 & 7; pl J, fig 7; text fig. 16.
(listed as Notioplusia illustrata)
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(updated 21 July 2010, 24 March 2014, 15 August 2019, 12 July 2020)