Biology:Leucania loreyi

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Short description: Species of moth

False army worm
Leucania loreyi dorsal.jpg
Dorsal view
Leucania loreyi ventral.jpg
Ventral view
Scientific classification edit
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 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

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]

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. 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.[7]

References

  1. "Leucania loreyi, (Duponchel, 1827)". http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/NOCTUIIDAE/HADENIINAE/leucania%20loreyi.html. 
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up. 
  3. Herbison-Evans, Don; Crossley, Stella (31 May 2017). "Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827) Nightfeeding Rice Armyworm". http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hade/loreyi.html. 
  4. "The Cosmopolitan Leucania loreyi". UKMoths. http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/leucania-loreyi/. 
  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". http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/hadeninae/hadeninae_4_16.php. 
  7. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2418209 entry