Heliothine moths are major agricultural pests worldwide attacking a wide range of food and fibre crops. The direct costs to farmers of crop damage and control measures are enormous – Helicoverpa and Heliothis species account for billions of dollars lost worldwide each year.
This book is a base-line resource for research into new Helicoverpa/Heliothis control methods. Written for the non-taxonomist, purely taxonomic information is separated from that more widely required by most researchers. This work is relevant to everyone involved in Helicoverpa/Heliothis control.
General, concise summaries of the agricultural importance of heliothines, their biology, systematics, and morphology are given. An up-to-date summary of heliothine phylogeny – based on morphological and molecular information – provides a framework for organising and interpreting biological information about all heliothine moths and has worldwide relevance. The 38 Australian heliothine species are detailed with identification information and individual species treatments. All species are illustrated in colour, and there are many colour photographs of immature stages and live adults. Additionally, there are 351 black and white images. Nomenclatural information of interest to taxonomists appears in an appendix, and includes a full checklist and detailed information of type specimens.
A CD-ROM packaged with the book contains a searchable database of all 14,800 Australian heliothine specimens examined; this is a major research tool in itself. The CD-ROM also carries nomenclatural information suitable for loading into bioinformatics packages, and images of type specimens.
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Introduction
General
Objectives
Scope of this study
Specimen preparation
Sequence of taxa
Distribution information
Flight period information
Illustrations and photography
CD-ROM
Database
Terminology
Plant names
Agricultural Importance and Control of Heliothinae in Australia
Crop damage and its cost
Pest biology
Insecticide resistance
Heliothine Biology
General
Life-history traits and behaviour
Features of Australian heliothine biology
Hybrids in Helicoverpa
Heliothine Systematics
General
Australian heliothine systematics
Heliothine Morphology
General
Adults
Immature stages
Eggs
Larvae
Pupae
Heliothine Phylogeny
The sister group relationship
Monophyly of the Heliothinae
Generic relationships within the Heliothinae: morphological evidence
Generic relationships within the Heliothinae: molecular evidence
Summary
Relationships between the Australian Helicoverpa species
Identification of Australian Heliothinae
Generic-level key based on external appearance
Species-level key based on male genitalia
Species-level key based on female genitalia
Accounts of Genera and Species
Adisura
Heliothis
Heliocheilus
Australothis
Helicoverpa
Nomenclatural Appendix
Acronyms and abbreviations
Typography used in the Nomenclatural Appendix
Images of type material
Checklist of Australian Heliothinae
Synonymy and Details of Type Material
Details of the Slide-Mounted Genitalia, Legs, and Wings, etc. Examined
Monochrome Figures
Colour Plates
Details of Colour Plates
References
Index
CD-ROM
Material Examined
Nomenclatural Database
Specimen list
Type specimen images
"This book is lavishly illustrated and the figures and plates are of the highest quality. . . By carefully considering his target audience, Matthews has ensured that they can find the information they want, in a form that is useful to them, while at the same time ensuring that the basic body of systematic data is also recorded in a flexible and useful format. I would recommend this book to virtually everyone with an interest in biology: to systematists, as an example of how to ensure taxonomy and revisionary monographic studies remain relevant in the 21st century; to 'practical biologists', as an example of the sort of thing they could have had, if they had known it could be provided; and to publishers, as an example of how extremely saleable taxonomic products of very high quality can be made widely available at relatively low cost." I.J. Kitching (Systematic Entomology, 25: 405-410)
“Being virtually the finest and best illustrated revision of this group of moths for any region of the world, all researchers on Noctuidae will need this book on their reference shelf, and likewise for economic entomologists.”
J.B. Heppner (Tropical Lepidoptera, 10(2) 1999)
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