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Spodoptera mauritia (lawn armyworm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Spodoptera mauritia, the lawn armyworm, also known as paddy swarming caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Cosmopolitan species, it is a major polyphagous pest throughout the world.
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Infraspecies

Spodoptera mauritia acronyctoides
Spodoptera mauritia mauritia

Prey / Diet

Beta maritima (sea beet)[1]
Casuarina equisetifolia (common ironwood)[1]
Oryza sativa (rice)[2]
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[2]
Zea mays (corn)[2]

Predators

Tachyglossus aculeatus (Short-beaked Echidna)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chaetogaedia monticola[2]
Lespesia archippivora[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIET AND FEEDING HABITS OF THE SHORT-BEAKED ECHIDNA (TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS) IN TASMANIA, Chris P. Spencer & Karen Richards, The Tasmanian Naturalist 131 (2009), p. 36-41
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0