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Wednesday 29 July 2015

Dark mottled willow, lawn caterpillar and grasslawn armyworm - Spodoptera cilium (Guenée, 1852) - Cyprus


FamilyNoctuidae
Spodoptera cilium, known variously as dark mottled willowlawn 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. It is sometimes a pest.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photos Geri , 15/11/ 2014 by George Konstantinou



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