Leucania loreyi

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False army worm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Leucania
Species:
L. loreyi
Binomial name
Leucania loreyi
(Duponchel, 1827)
Synonyms
  • Acantholeucania loreyi(Duponchel, 1827)
  • Noctua loreyiDuponchel, 1827
  • Leucania caricisTreitschke, 1835
  • Leucania collectaWalker, 1856
  • Leucania curvulaWalker, 1856
  • Leucania denotataWalker, 1856
  • Leucania designataWalker, 1856
  • Leucania exteriorWalker, 1856
  • Leucania thoracicaWalker, 1856
  • Borolia melanostrotoidesStrand, 1915
  • Leucania pseudoloreyiRungs, 1953
  • Leucania melanostrotoides
  • Mythimna loreyi

Leucania loreyi, the cosmopolitan, false army worm or nightfeeding rice armyworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of African countries, the Indo-Australian subtropics and tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the eastern Palearctic realm, and the Near East and Middle East. The species was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1827. [1] [2] [3]

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Description

Its wingspan is about 34–44 mm. [4] Forewing greyish ochreous; the veins pale lined with brown, the intervals with brown lines; a short black streak from base below cell; median nervure thickly outlined with fuscous to beyond cell; reniform stigma indicated by a white dot at lower angle of cell; outer line by a row of black dots on veins; a triangular brown subapical patch edged above by an oblique pale streak from apex; hindwing white, the veins towards termen fuscous; abdominal tufts beneath formed of coarse scalelike brown black hairs. [5]

Ecology

The larva is reddish grey, and yellowish between the segments and the dorsal line is fine, grey, and double. The subdorsal lines are divided, interrupted, and all clearer towards the anal segments. spiracles black-ringed. Adults are on wing year round. There are multiple generations per year. [6]

Recorded food plants in Israel include Phragmites australis , Sacharum ravennae and Gramineae species. [7]

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References

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  2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (31 May 2017). "Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827) Nightfeeding Rice Armyworm". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. "The Cosmopolitan Leucania loreyi". UKMoths. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  5. Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
  6. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Mythimna (Acantholeucania) loreyi Duponchel". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  7. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/havt50xw.