Cluster Caterpillar, Tobacco Cutworm at Rosedale, NSW
Identification history
| Spodoptera litura | 1 Jun 2019 | jb2602 | ||
| Spodoptera litura | 22 Mar 2019 | ibaird | ||
| Unidentified | 6 Mar 2019 | jb2602 |
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User's notes
Is it some type of Chrysodeiris?
1 comment
ibaird
wrote:
23 Mar 2019
No, Spodoptera. This is a crop pest species of international significance which has been recorded on over a hundred field and vegetable crops in Asia, India, the Pacific and in Australia. Its is closely related and difficult to distinguish from S. littoralis.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.226017-35.811454
- Places Rosedale, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Feb 2019 10:10 AM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) jb2602 South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Spodoptera litura Scientific name
- Cluster Caterpillar, Tobacco Cutworm Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 668.9m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Prodenia tasmanica
