Exotic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Hoare, R.J.B.; Hudson, N. (2018)

First NZ record: 1 photographed, ND: Maungakaramea near Whangarei, 12 May 2011, O. Ball. First NZ specimen, AK: Freemans Bay, to light, 20-21 May 2011, NH (NHNZ). From 2012 onwards, common in the Auckland district; also present in the Coromandel district (1 dead in a spider’s web, Waihi Motor Camp, 23 Mar 2012, NH). Its further spread south has not been well documented but now present in Taranaki (photographed by P. Bendle pers. comm.) and north-west Nelson (specimen in BPNZ). Although Ctenoplusia limbirena was first recorded in Australia in 2013, it is possible that it had been overlooked in earlier years and that the NZ population (first recorded 2011) is the result of migration from Australia. The species has increased rapidly in NZ and is encountered frequently in native forest as well as suburban gardens.

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

Ctenoplusia limbirena

Hoare, R.J.B.; Hudson, N. (2018)

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

Plusia limbirena Guenée, 1852

Plusia limbirena Guenée, 1852

Hoare, R.J.B.; Hudson, N. (2018)

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

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