Spodoptera cilium

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Spodoptera cilium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Amphipyrinae
Genus: Spodoptera
Species: S. cilium
Binomial name
Spodoptera cilium
Guenée, 1852

Spodoptera cilium—known variously as Dark Mottled Willow, Lawn Caterpillar and Grasslawn Armyworm—is a noctuid moth found throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa and western, southern and south-east Asia and several countries in southern and eastern Europe. It has been recorded at least nine times in the UK. It is sometimes a pest.