Tobacco looper or looper caterpillar

Tobacco looper or looper caterpillar

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Scientific Name
Chrysodeixis argentifera
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Insecta
Informal:
Pterygotes
Subclass:
Pterygota
Order:
Lepidoptera
Superfamily:
Noctuoidea
Family:
Noctuidae
Subfamily:
Plusiinae
Tribe:
Argyrogrammatini
Genus:
Chrysodeixis
Species:
Chrysodeixis argentifera

Chrysodeixis argentifera, the tobacco looper, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.[1] It is found in Australia and New Zealand.

The wingspan is c. 30 mm.

The larvae feed on various plants, including sunflower, canola, tomato, various beans and silver beet.

References

  1. ^ "Chrysodeixis argentifera (Gueneeb, 1852)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
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Tobacco looper or looper caterpillar

Chrysodeixis argentifera
Scientific Name
Chrysodeixis argentifera
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Insecta
Informal:
Pterygotes
Subclass:
Pterygota
Order:
Lepidoptera
Superfamily:
Noctuoidea
Family:
Noctuidae
Subfamily:
Plusiinae
Tribe:
Argyrogrammatini
Genus:
Chrysodeixis
Species:
Chrysodeixis argentifera
Tobacco looper or looper caterpillar

Chrysodeixis argentifera, the tobacco looper, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.[1] It is found in Australia and New Zealand.

The wingspan is c. 30 mm.

The larvae feed on various plants, including sunflower, canola, tomato, various beans and silver beet.

References

  1. ^ "Chrysodeixis argentifera (Gueneeb, 1852)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chrysodeixis argentifera.
Wikispecies has information related to Chrysodeixis argentifera.
 
Chrysodeixis argentifera

 

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This Plusiinae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chrysodeixis argentifera", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Content may have been omitted from the original, but no content has been changed or extended.