Species Spodoptera apertura (Walker, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prodenia apertura Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [654].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANIC ♀, 3 miles S of Port Macquarie, NSW.
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Sri Lanka [as 'Ceylon'].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pogue, M.G. 2002. A world revision of the genus Spodoptera Guenée (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 43: 1-202 [54].
• Prodenia synstictis Hampson, G.F. 1896. Moths IV. In, Blandford, W.T. (ed.). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London : Taylor and Francis xxiii+594 pp. [511].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Hambantota, Sri Lanka [as 'Ceylon'].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hampson, G.F. 1909. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 8 xiv 583 pp., 1 folded page. [260].
• Prodenia leucophlebia Hampson, G.F. 1902. The moths of South Africa (Part 2). Annals of the South African Museum 2: 255-446 [288].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Karkloof, Natal, [South Africa].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pogue, M.G. 2002. A world revision of the genus Spodoptera Guenée (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 43: 1-202 [54].
• Laphygma connexa Wileman, A.E. 1914. New species of Arctiadae and Noctuidae from Formosa. The Entomologist 47: 161-169 [166].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ ♂ (Poole (1989: 922) lists a female and a male syntype for this species, and no lectotype has been designated for this species since Poole's publication; however, Pogue (2002: 54) refers to the type material as a 'lectotype male', but without stating a reference for a lectotype designation), Kanshirei, Taiwan [as 'Formosa'].
• Spodoptera teferii Laporte in Rougeot, P.C. 1984. Mission Entomologiques en Ethiopie 1976-1982. Fascicule II. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] N.S., A (Zoologie) 128: 1-93, 18 pls [29].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). E.J. Brill & Flora & Fauna Publications : Leiden & Gainsville. xii +1314 pp. [922]
• Pogue, M.G. 2002. A world revision of the genus Spodoptera Guenée (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 43: 1-202 [52]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae have been recorded as feeding on Nicotiana (Solanaceae) and Drosera (Droseraceae).

History of changes