Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) - Bordered Straw

Taxonomic Information

Heliothis Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India (Joshi et al., 2025). 
Heliothis adaucta Butler, 1878. India: NW Himalaya. 
Heliothis maritima Graslin, 1855. India: Ladakh (Needs verification). 
Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]. India: Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh. 
Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775). India: Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Heliothis peltigera - Bordered Straw

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Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Bordered Straw: Acanthospermum spp., Calendula officinalis, Carthamus tinctorius, Eclipta prostrata, Helianthus annuus, Tanacetum spp. (Asteraceae), Allium spp. (Alliaceae), Arachis hypogaea, Cicer arietinum, Ulex spp. (Fabaceae), Arenaria (Caryophyllaceae), Cucumis melo (Cucurbitaceae), Glycine max, Zea mays, Sorghum (Poaceae), Gossypium, Triumfetta pilosa (Malvaceea), Hyoscyamus spp., Lycopersicon esculentum, Nicotiana spp. (Solanaceae), Ricinus spp. (Euphorbiaceae), Mentha spp. (Lamiaceae), Malus domestica (Rosaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. OD: Noctua peltigera Schiff.1776. Wien. Werz. pg. 89.  
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.Page 175, #1602
  3. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl 40/10-11. 
  4. Muddasar, V. and Shashank P. R. 2017. Taxonomic description of three species of Heliothinae (Noctuidae; Lepidoptera). Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 737-745. Plate 3.
  5. Joshi, R., Raha, A., Bandyopadhyay, U., Bhattacharyya, K. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India. Zootaxa, 5669(1), pp.1-225.
  6. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Heliothis_Peltigera [accessed 03 October 2020] 
  7. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/347024-Heliothis-peltigera

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Heliothis peltigera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Bordered Straw. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/heliothis-peltigera, accessed 2025/10/27.