Spodoptera latifascia
Appearance
Spodoptera latifascia | |
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Caterpillar | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Spodoptera |
Species: | S. latifascia
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Binomial name | |
Spodoptera latifascia Walker, 1856
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Synonyms | |
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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
[edit]The wingspan is about 42 mm.
Phenology
[edit]Adults are on wing from March to October depending on the location.
Geography
[edit]Type Locality: Jamaica
Taxonomy
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Walker, Francis (1856). List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 9: 195.
- ^ Pogue, Michael (2002). "A world revision of the genus Spodoptera Guenée: (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). no. 43". American Entomological Society.
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