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Cosmopolitan

Leucania loreyi

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Noctuidae

Leucania loreyi, the cosmopolitan, false army worm or nightfeeding rice armyworm, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of African countries, the Indo-Australian subtropics and tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the eastern Palearctic realm, and the Near East and Middle East. The species was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1827.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 457Italy · 112France · 54Netherlands · 12Switzerland · 7United Kingdom · 3