noctuid

For example, the caterpillars of some species of Xanthia and other noctuid moths feed at first upon willow-catkins.

For instance Plotheia frontalis, a Noctuid which often abounds in Ceylon, shows an equally bewildering wealth of forms.

Box turtles probably benefit man by destroying large numbers of crop-damaging insects (locustids and noctuid caterpillars).

On the whole, members of this family are more available to the day collector than are those of the Noctuid.

Genitalia of a male Noctuid from below : the parts separated out.