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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).

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

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.


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