Heliothis nubigera

Heliothis nubigera
	Heliothis nubigera in Seitz ie Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde figure 50l
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Heliothis
Species:	H. nubigera
Binomial name
	Heliothis nubigera; Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
Synonyms
	Chloridea nubigera Rothschild, 1915;

Heliothis nubigera, the eastern bordered straw, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in all kind of arid areas in the Palearctic realm. It is found in all the Levant countries.

Garrigue (Phrygana) habitat, Rhodes

Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 35–40 mm. Forewing greyish ochreous; reniform stigma dark grey, attached to the grey costal median spot; orbicular annular with grey centre; outer line lunulate dentate, the teeth whitish, separated by a brown shade from the subterminal line; hindwing pearly white with broad blackish outer border, containing a double whitish blotch between veins 2 and 4; veins and cell spot dark; fringe white.[1]

Biology

Adults are on wing year round. There are probably two generations per year.

Larva red-brown, dorsal line darker, subdorsal band alternately black and white; a diffused brown sublateral band. The larvae are polyphagous on various wild herbaceous plants. Recorded food plants include Zygophyllum, Echinops, Lonicera, Atriplex halimus, Retama raetam, Suaeda asphaltica and Zygophyllum dumosum.[2]

References

Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
"Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London".

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[1] Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914

[2] "Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London".