Spodoptera
Appearance
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Spodoptera | |
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Spodoptera mauritia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Tribe: | Prodeniini |
Genus: | Spodoptera Guenée, 1852 |
Synonyms | |
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Spodoptera is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852. Many are known as pest insects. The larvae are sometimes called armyworms. The roughly thirty species are distributed across six continents.[1][2]
Description
[edit]No tufts behind collar as in Euplexia, but only tufts present on metathorax. Scales much smoother. Abdominal tufts slight. Fore tibial tufts are very developed. Cilia slightly crenulated. Antennae almost simple.[3]
Species
[edit]- Spodoptera abyssinia Guenée, 1852
- Spodoptera albula (Walker, 1857) (orth. var. S. albulum)
- Spodoptera androgea (Stoll, [1782])
- Spodoptera angulata (Gaede, 1935)
- Spodoptera apertura (Walker, 1865)
- Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 – grasslawn armyworm
- Spodoptera compta (Walker, 1869)
- Spodoptera connexa (Wileman, 1914)
- Spodoptera depravata (Butler, 1879)
- Spodoptera dolichos (Fabricius, 1794) – sweet potato armyworm
- Spodoptera eridania (Cramer) – southern armyworm
- Spodoptera evanida Schaus, 1914
- Spodoptera excelsa Rougeot & Laporte, 1983
- Spodoptera exempta (Walker, [1857]) – African armyworm
- Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, [1808]) – beet armyworm
- Spodoptera fasciculata (Berio, 1973)
- Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797) – fall armyworm
- Spodoptera hipparis (Druce, 1889)
- Spodoptera latifascia (Walker, 1856) – velvet armyworm
- Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833) – African cotton leafworm
- Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775) – Oriental leafworm moth
- Spodoptera malagasy Viette, 1967
- Spodoptera marima (Schaus, 1904) syn. S. ornithogalli below[4]
- Spodoptera mauritia (Boisduval, 1833) – lawn armyworm
- Spodoptera ochrea (Hampson, 1909)
- Spodoptera ornithogalli (Guenée, 1852) – yellow-striped armyworm
- Spodoptera pecten Guenée, 1852
- Spodoptera pectinicornis (Hampson, 1895) – water-lettuce moth
- Spodoptera peruviana (Walker, 1865)
- Spodoptera picta (Guérin-Méneville, [1838])
- Spodoptera praefica (Grote, 1875) – western yellowstriped armyworm
- Spodoptera pulchella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868) – Caribbean armyworm
- Spodoptera roseae (Schaus, 1923)
- Spodoptera semiluna (Hampson, 1909)
- Spodoptera sebastian (Swanson-Knope, 1919)
- Spodoptera teferii Laporte, 194
- Spodoptera triturata (Walker, [1857])
- Spodoptera umbraculata (Walker, 1858)
References
[edit]- ^ Nagoshi, R. N., et al. (2011). Use of DNA barcodes to identify invasive armyworm Spodoptera species in Florida. Journal of Insect Science 11 154.
- ^ Meagher, R. L., et al. (2008). Monitoring for exotic Spodoptera species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Florida. Florida Entomologist 91(4), 517-22.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Spodoptera ornithogalli". European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. 2020-09-02. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
External links
[edit]- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw.
- Savela, Markku. "Spodoptera Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 22, 2019.