Species Heliocheilus ranalaetensis Matthews, 1999

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heliocheilus ranalaetensis 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 [88-90, 176-177].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 18km WNW of Calperum homestead, SA [34°00'S 140°31'E].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Matthews (1999: 90) suggested the larvae to possibly feed on Triodia scariosa (Poaceae).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED