Australian Native Budworm: Black Band on Hind Wings

Australian Native Budworm (Helicoverpa punctigera)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Owlet moth (:Noctuoidea Noctuidae Heliothinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Australian Native Budworm (Helicoverpa punctigera)

This Photo:

🔍Black Band on Hind Wings🔎

Other names:

Corn Ear Worm, Tomato Grub, Tobacco Budworm or Cotton Bollworm

Thank you Rog Standen & Jack Crosbie for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges, the Riverland and elsewhere
Without seeing the hindwings (looking for a pale patch in the trailing black band in H. armigera), it's not possible to differentiate between the introduced H. armigera & this one. None of the specimens, where we have hind wing shots, have been H. armigera on Ellura

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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