African Moths Gambia


     

Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)

Tomato Worm.

SYNONYMS
Hadena littoralis, Spodoptera litura, Prodenia metriodes, Hadena retina, Prodenia testaceoides,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 10
apertura, cilium, excelsa, exempta, exigua, littorallis, malagasy, maurita, teferi, triturata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DRCongo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous

 

Spodoptera littoralis
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Photo: R. Butler
 
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (ZA)
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
 
Photo: T. Baron
Underside (GM
 
Larva (GM)
 
Larva (CM)
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Photo: A. Guyonnet
Pupa (CM)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
Photo: N. Voaden