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Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852

Fetnassi, Nidal, Er-rguibi, Omar, Aglagane, Abdessamad, Ghamizi, Mohamed & Õunap, Erki, 2025, Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 137839-e 137839 : e137839-

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e137839

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761730

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scientific name

 Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
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Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 View in CoL

Notes

Ten specimens were collected from Tassourte, Ighalene and Timzilite. One male specimen is illustrated in Fig. 11 View Figure 11 . According to Rungs (1981) and references therein, S. cilium has been recorded in the Middle Atlas, plains and low mountains, including Marrakech, which is considered to be the closest spot to our study localities. However, no earlier records are known from the High Atlas Mountains. The species is considered as a pest of various crops and can proliferate quite rapidly ( Rungs 1981, Hatami et al. 2021), which might explain its vast expansion.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Spodoptera

Specimens