Species Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée, 1852)
- Heliothis assulta Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites II. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 6 444 pp. [178].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♂, Tahiti, [French Polynesia].Subsequent designation references:
Viette, P. 1951. Sur quelques Noctuelles décrites par Guenée (1852-1854). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 20: 159-162 [161]. - Heliothis temperata Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [689].
Type data:
Holotype OUM ♀ [as ♂], India [as 'Hindostan']. - Heliothis separata Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [691].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Samoa [as 'Navigator's Isles]. - Heliothis succinea Moore, F. 1881. Descriptions of new genera and species of Asiatic nocturnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 326-380, 2 pls [362].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Bombay, [India].Subsequent designation references:
Matthews, M. 1999. Heliothinae moths of Australia. A guide to pest bollworms and related noctuid groups. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 7: i-x, 1-320, CD-ROM [189]. - Helicoverpa afra Hardwick, D.F. 1965. The corn earworm complex. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 40: 1-247, 4 pls, 146 figs [123].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Bingerville, Ivory Coast.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Matthews, M. 1999. Heliothinae moths of Australia. A guide to pest bollworms and related noctuid groups. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 7: i-x, 1-320, CD-ROM [187]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Eidely distributed in the warmer and more humid parts of the Old World, from South Africa through the Middle East, Central and South-East Asia to Australia.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Larvae are oligophagous on Solanaceae (e.g. Nicotiana tabacum, Lycopersicon esculentum, Capsicum annuum and Physalis), but have also been recorded in Australia as feeding on Carthamus tinctorius (Asteraceae), Gossypium hirsutum (Malvaceae), Portulaca (Portulacaceae) and Antirrhinum majus (Scrophulariaceae). While not considered a problem in Australia, this species is known as a serious pest of Nicotiana, Capsicum and Physalis in the Oriental Region.
History of changes
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