About Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)
Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843), commonly called the green garden looper, and known as the Silver Y in New Zealand, is a moth species belonging to the family Noctuidae. Its distribution is mostly cosmopolitan. It acts as a pest in Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, the Malay Peninsula, and Australasia. The species is present in Hawaii, and has been recorded as an incursion in mainland North America and Russia. It is morphologically identical to Chrysodeixis chalcites, and the two may be sibling species. For its life cycle, the duration of the pupal stage ranges from just a few days in summer to approximately one month in winter. Adult moths of this species live between ten and twelve days.
