| (formerly known as Canthylidia puncticulata) HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (formerly known as Canthylidia puncticulata) HELIOTHINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings, each with variable pale costal and subcostal streaks, and sometimes a dark patch near the middle. The hindwings are pale brown with dark shading around the margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
This species has been found in
Further reading :
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 86-88, 176, 200, Plate 10.
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. 312, and also
Plate 27, row n, item 7..
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 25 April 2019)