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Sidemia
''Sidemia'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f .... Species * ''Sidemia beduina'' Wiltshire, 1948 * ''Sidemia bremeri'' (Ershov, 1870) * ''Sidemia dimorpha'' Rungs, 1950 * ''Sidemia judaica'' (Staudinger, 1897) * ''Sidemia plebeja'' (Staudinger, 1888) * ''Sidemia spilogramma'' (Rambur, 1871) * '' Sidemia spodopterodes'' Hampson, 1908 ReferencesNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Hadeninae {{Hadenini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidemia Spodopterodes
''Neuranethes spodopterodes'' is a moth in the family Noctuidae, subfamily Hadeninae. Although it was described at the start of the 20th century, the moth and its habits were little known. It turns out that the adults have vestigial mouthparts and do not feed before they die, but the larvae fed on species of ''Agapanthus''. However, although the larvae are voracious feeders, the species seems to have done so little harm as to have escaped notice, presumably because of natural control by parasitoids. Early in the 21st century however, it emerged as a serious horticultural pest of popular species of Agapanthus in regions where neither the moth nor the plants occurred spontaneously. It seems that the moth had been translocated accidentally in horticultural stock and that the natural enemies had not been imported at the same time. Its very voracity combined with its monophagous A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
