Species Neogalea sunia (Guenée, 1852)

Museums

Xylomyges sunia Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) 1852. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 7 442 pp., 24 pls. [149].
Xylina esula H. Druce, 1889.
Neogalea braziliensis Hampson, 1906.
Neogalea longfieldae Hayes, 1975.

Established, see [94].

Introduced from USA.

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [328] (Note 724. Neogalea sunia (Guenée, 1852) was listed in the Acronyetinae by Nye (1975) and in the Cuculliinae by Poole (1989). It was first introduced into Australia in 1957 for the biological control of Lantana camara Linnaeus from California and is widely established (Julien 1992, as Neogalea esula (Druce)))

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