Earias huegeliana Gaede, 1937
Rough Bollworm
(one synonym : Earis perhuegeli)
CHLOEPHORINAENOCTUIDAE

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

(updated 15 August 2008)

These Caterpillars feed on the young shoots, flowers, and seed pods of their foodplant. They are a pest on :

  • Cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum, MALVACEAE ),

    and also have been found on :

  • Australian Native Cotton ( Gossypium australe, MALVACEAE ),
  • Gossypium populifolium ( MALVACEAE ),
  • Yellow Hibiscus ( Hibiscus panduriformis, MALVACEAE ),
  • Venice Mallow ( Hibiscus trionum, MALVACEAE ),
  • Desert Rose ( Alyogyne hakeifolia, MALVACEAE ),
  • Keeled Lantern Bush ( Abutilon otocarpum, MALVACEAE ),
  • Abelmoschus ficulneus ( MALVACEAE ), and also
  • Australian Boab ( Adansonia gregorii, BOMBACACEAE ).

    The moths of this noctuid have forewings with variable white and green stripes along their length, and satin white hindwings with brown margins. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.


    (Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

    This species occurs over the northern two-thirds of Australia, as well as islands in the south Pacific.


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. 59, 65, 458.


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