Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833) = Hadena littoralis Boisduval, 1833 = Hadena retina Freyer, 1845 = Prodenia testaceoides Guenée, 1852 = Prodenia metriodes Bethune-Baker, 1911. [9, 10]

Mediterranean Brocade.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, France, Germany, Greece, Denmark *, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Finland *, France, Switzerland, Sweden *. [1].
Azores, Albania, the Balearic Islands, the British Islands, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), the Canary Islands, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Madeira, Malta, the Channel Islands, Portugal (mainland), Sardinia, Sicily, France (mainland)Switzerland. [10].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)