Heliothis viriplaca

Heliothis viriplaca, the marbled clover, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea.

It is found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Central Asia then to Japan, Korea and Sakhalin.

As a migratory moth, it also reaches areas in northern Fennoscandia in some years.

Meyrick describes it thus- Forewings greyish-ochreous, slightly greenish -tinged, paler before and beyond reniform; first and second lines indistinct; median shade rather dark fuscous, confluent with large dark fuscous reniform; subterminal line rather paler, preceded by a darker or fuscous fascia, darkest at extremities.

The larvae feed on species from the genera Crepis, Trifolium, Silene, Ononis and Centaurea.

larvae in various stages