Dark Mottled Willow

Spodoptera cilium, known variously as dark mottled willow, lawn caterpillar and grasslawn armyworm, is a noctuid moth found throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and western, southern, and south-east Asia and several countries in southern and eastern Europe. It is a migrant to northern Europe and has been recorded at least nine times in the United Kingdom. The larva feeds on Oryza.

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Spodoptera es un género lepidópteros ditrisios de la familia Noctuidae. Muchas de sus especies son plagas en diversos cultivos, como por ejemplo Spodoptera frugiperda, que ataca principalmente al maíz (Zea mays) y al algodón (Gossypium), entre otros. Especies Spodoptera abyssinia Guenée, 1852 Spodoptera albulum (Walker, 1857) Spodoptera androgea (Stoll, [1782]) Spodoptera angulata (Gaede, 1935) Spodoptera apertura (Walker, 1865) Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 Spodoptera compta (Walker, 1869) Spodoptera connexa (Wileman, 1914) Spodoptera depravata (Butler, 1879) Spodoptera dolichos…