Higher classification Heliothis | Scientific name Heliothis nubigera Rank Species | |
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Similar Heliothis, Butterflies and moths, Noctuidae, Heliothis peltigera, Heliothis ononis | ||
Heliothis nubigera, the eastern bordered straw, is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in all kind of arid areas in the Palaearctic ecozone. It is found in all the Levant countries.
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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.
Biology
Adults are on wing year round. There are probably two generations per year.
Larva redbrown, 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.
