Biology:List of Lepidoptera that feed on Senecio

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Senecio species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera species including: thumb|right|320px

Arctiidae

Garden tiger caterpillar

right|thumb|Nyctemera amicus right|thumb|250px|Cinnabar moth caterpillars

Bucculatricidae

Choreutidae

Crambidae

Geometridae

right|thumb|250px|Common eupithecia caterpillar

Gracillariidae

Lasiocampidae

Lycaenidae

Nepticulidae

Noctuidae

thumb|right|250px|Bright-line brown-eye caterpillar thumb|right|250px|Angle shades caterpillars (two forms)

Nymphalidae

thumb|right|250px|Painted lady caterpillar

Oecophoridae

  • Agonopterix canadensis – recorded on Senecio serra in the Nearctic
  • Agonopterix cinerariae – recorded on Senecio halimifolius, Senecio appendiculatus, Senecio tussilaginis in the Canary Islands[1]
  • Agonopterix cotoneastri – recorded on Senecio fluviatilis in the Palaearctic
  • Agonopterix dammersi – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
  • Agonopterix fusciterminella – recorded on Senecio aronicoides in the Nearctic
  • Agonopterix senecionella – recorded on Senecio aureus in the Nearctic

Pterophoridae

thumb|right|250px|Emmelina monodactyla

Pyralidae

Saturniidae

Scythrididae

Tortricidae

right|thumb|250px|Lucerne leaf roller

References

  1. J. Klimesch (1984). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Microlepidopteren-Fauna des Kanarischen Archipels - 7 Beiträg". Vieraea 14 (1–2): 132–133. 

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