Heortia vitessoides

Heortia vitessoides · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Crambidae

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Heortia vitessoides
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The moth has a wingspan of roughly three centimeters. It lives in parts of southeast Asia such as Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Thailand and also reaches northern Queensland in Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Wingspan is about 30 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Heortia vitessoides photo 2
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Heortia vitessoides photo 3
Photo: Cheryl Stinchcomb, CC BY
Heortia vitessoides photo 4
Photo: Cheryl Stinchcomb, CC BY
Heortia vitessoides photo 5
Photo: desertnaturalist, CC BY

Same family (Crambidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heortia_vitessoides

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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