Spodoptera latifascia

Spodoptera latifascia
	Caterpillar
Scientific classification
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.

Ecology

The larvae feed on various low-growing plants and garden crops such as tomato and eggplant. They are sometimes mistaken for a color variety of the yellow-striped armyworm.

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

^ 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.

External links

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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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