Spodoptera apertura Walker

Prodenia apertura Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 32: 654.

Prodenia synstictis Hampson, 1896, Fauna British India, Moths 4: 511.

Prodenia leucophlebia Hampson, 1902 ,Ann. S. Afr . Mus., 2: 288.

Spodoptera apertura Walker; Brown & Dewhurst, 1975: 253.

Diagnosis

This is a small species with dark forewings within which orbicular and reniform are finely delineated in white and joined posteriorly by a white line. The hindwings do not have the veins darkened, nor are the wings nacreous. There is a dark brown zone costally.

Biology

The species has been reared from Nicotiana (Solanaceae) in Africa, but no larval description is available (Brown & Dewhurst, 1975).

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