(formerly known as Canthylidia condfundens) HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has off-white wings with brown veins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
This species has been found in
as well as in
Further reading :
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 60-61, 159-160, 197, plate 7.
William Warren,
Noctuiform Phalaenae: Mericleptriinae,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Volume 11: The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag (1913), p. 313, and also
Plate 28, row b, items 5, 6..
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 25 April 2019)