Spodoptera exigua (Hubner, 1808)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Prodeniini → genus Spodoptera → species Spodoptera exigua

Species name(s)

Spodoptera exigua (Hubner, 1808) = Noctua exigua Hübner, [1808] = Noctua fulgens Geyer, [1832] = Caradrina pygmaea Rambur, 1834 = Caradrina junceti Zeller, 1847 = Laphygma cycloides Guenée, 1852 = Laphygma caradrinoides Walker, 1856 = Caradrina flavimaculata Harvey, 1876 = Caradrina venosa Butler, 1880 = Caradrina sebghana Austant, 1880 = Laphygma exigua antipodea Warren, 1914 = Laphygma canior Strand, 1916 = albimacula (Dannehl, 1929) = decolorata (Dannehl, 1929) = variegata (Dannehl, 1929) = protector (de Laever, 1985) = Spodoptera cilium = Laphigma exigua junceti. [9, 10]

Small Mottled Willow.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropic, Ethiopic, Indo-Malayan, Australian.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Azores, Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Spain (mainland ), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete,Latvia, Lithuania, Madeira, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, the Savage Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Faroe Islands, Finland,France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, the Lower Amur, Lower Volga, Primorye, Sakhalin, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky , Southern Urals. [3].
Kazakhstan [PC1149].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Persicaria, in captivity can be fed Taraxacum and Senecio. [28].

Subspecies of Spodoptera exigua

Spodoptera exigua antipodea Warren, 1914. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev, Evgeny Komarov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Alexander Belousov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC1149] Alexander Belousov