Helicoverpa prepodes (Common, 1985) HELIOTHINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Hendry, Sheldon, Queensland)

The adult moths have forewings that are brown with a bluish tinge, each with three faint transverse wiggly pairs of dark lines. The hindwings are pale brown each with a broad brown margin. The thorax is large and covered in grey scales. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
A new Australian species of Heliothis Ochsenheimer,
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society,
Volume 24 (1985), p. 131.

Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 123-125, 191-192, 202, 281, 304, Plate 11.39-11.46.

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(written 21 August 2017, updated 10 October 2023)