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Spodoptera latifascia

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Spodoptera latifascia
Caterpillar
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Spodoptera
Species:
S. latifascia
Binomial name
Spodoptera latifascia
Walker, 1856
Synonyms
  • Prodenia variolosa Walker, 1857

Spodoptera latifascia, commonly known as the lateral-lined armyworm, garden armyworm, or velvet armyworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae found from Central America and the Antilles into North America (from Texas to Florida).

Description

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The wingspan is about 42 mm.

Phenology

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Adults are on wing from March to October depending on the location.

Geography

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Type Locality: Jamaica

Taxonomy

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Walker (1856)[1] originally described latifascia, placing it in the genus Prodenia.

Basionym: Prodenia latifascia Walker, 1856.

Pogue (2002)[2] revived S. cosmioides (Walker, 1858), as a valid species (though mis-spelled as S. cosmiodes), from synonymy of S. latifascia.

References

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  1. ^ Walker, Francis (1856). List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 9: 195.
  2. ^ Pogue, Michael (2002). "A world revision of the genus Spodoptera Guenée: (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). no. 43". American Entomological Society.
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