Spodoptera latifascia

Spodoptera latifascia
Caterpillar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

The wingspan is about 42 mm.

Phenology

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

Geography

Type Locality: Jamaica

Taxonomy

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

  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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