Species Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775)
- Noctua litura Fabricius, 1775.
Type data:
Neotype USNM ♂, Mangpu-road, Darjeeling, India.
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, 'India Orientali' [India].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 [79]. - Noctua histrionica Fabricius, 1775.
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (the type is presumed lost (Zimsen 1964)), India. Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (the type is presumed lost (Zimsen 1964)), Tranquebariae, [India].- Prodenia ciligera Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [164].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂ (original description stated Java, [Indonesia]), locality unknown.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 [79]. - Prodenia tasmanica Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [163].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Tasmania. - Prodenia subterminalis Walker, F. 1856. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 9: 1-252 [196].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Punjab, India. - Prodenia glaucistriga Walker, F. 1856. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 9: 1-252 [197].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, India (Northern).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 [79]. - Prodenia declinata Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [723].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, N India. - Mamestra albisparsa Walker, F. 1862. Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 6: 82-145, 171-198 [186].
Type data:
Syntype(s) OUM, Sarawak, Borneo, [Malaysia]. - Prodenia evanescens Butler, A.G. 1884. The Lepidoptera collected by Herr Palisa at Caroline Island in May, 1883. Memoirs of the National Academy of Science Washington 2: 93-96 [94].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Caroline Islands, [Federated States of Micronesia].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 [79].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded as a pest of a very broad range of plants; plant hosts include Nicotiana glauca, Solanum lycopersicum fruits (Solanaceae), Syringia sp. (Oleaceae), Dahlia sp., Lactuca sativa (Asteraceae), Viola sp. (Violaceae), Veronica sp. (Scrophulariaceae), Malus domestica (Rosaceae), Musa (Musaceae), Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae), Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae) and many other crops.
General References
Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [324: Note #712] (Spodoptera litura (Fabricius, 1775) and Spodoptera bistrionica (Fabricius, 1775) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to S. litura (Fabricius) by Hampson (1909) as first reviser)
History of changes
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