Leucania loreyi

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Leucania loreyi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Leucania
Species: L. loreyi
Binomial name
Leucania loreyi
(Duponchel, 1827)
Synonyms
  • Acantholeucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
  • Noctua loreyi Duponchel, 1827
  • Leucania caricis Treitschke, 1835
  • Leucania collecta Walker, 1856
  • Leucania curvula Walker, 1856
  • Leucania denotata Walker, 1856
  • Leucania designata Walker, 1856
  • Leucania exterior Walker, 1856
  • Leucania thoracica Walker, 1856
  • Borolia melanostrotoides Strand, 1915
  • Leucania pseudoloreyi Rungs, 1953
  • Leucania melanostrotoides
  • Mythimna loreyi

The Cosmopolitan (Leucania loreyi) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Africa, the Indo-Australian subtropics and tropics, the eastern Palearctic ecozone and the Near East and Middle East.

Adults are on wing year round. There are multiple generation per year.

Recorded food plants in Israel include Phragmites australis, Sacharum ravennae and Gramineae species. Occasionally they are found on ornamental bamboo and once in an experimental rice field, a pest of winter cereals (wheat, barley) and summer cereals (corn, sorghum, sugar cane). Other recorded food plant include various grasses, such as Oryza, Paspalum, Saccharum, Triticum and Zea species.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.". 

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