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Species of moth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spodoptera latifascia, commonly known as the lateral-lined armyworm, garden armyworm, or velvet armyworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae found from Central America and the Antilles into North America (from Texas to Florida).
| Spodoptera latifascia | |
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| Caterpillar | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Spodoptera |
| Species: | S. latifascia |
| Binomial name | |
| Spodoptera latifascia Walker, 1856 | |
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The wingspan is about 42 mm.
Adults are on wing from March to October depending on the location.
Type Locality: Jamaica
Walker (1856)[1] originally described latifascia, placing it in the genus Prodenia.
Basionym: Prodenia latifascia Walker, 1856.
Pogue (2002)[2] revived S. cosmioides (Walker, 1858), as a valid species (though mis-spelled as S. cosmiodes), from synonymy of S. latifascia.
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