Slender burnished brass | |
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Adult feeding on Salvia nectar | |
Mounted adult | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Thysanoplusia |
Species: | T. orichalcea
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Binomial name | |
Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
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Thysanoplusia orichalcea, the slender burnished brass,[1] is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is a polyphagous pest of vegetable crops that originated in Indonesia, from where it spread to Europe, South Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.[2] In northern Europe it is a migrant species.