Heliothis

Taxobox
name = "Heliothis"


image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Heliothis virescens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Ditrysia
superfamilia = Noctuoidea
familia = Noctuidae
subfamilia = Heliothinae
genus = "Heliothis"
genus_authority = Ochsenheimer, 1816

"Heliothis" is a genus of moths, whose larvae are agricultural pests on crop species such as tobacco, cotton, soybean and pigeon pea. Several of the species formerly placed in this genus are now in the genus "Helicoverpa".

Species include:
*"Heliothis peltigera"
*"heliothis virescens"
*"Heliothis viriplaca"

External Links

* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/tobacco_budworm.htm "H. virescens", tobacco budworm] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site