Spodoptera litura

(Fabricius, 1775)

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Common name (English)

Tobacco cutworm, Cotton leafworm

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Habitat detail

Unknown

Establishment status

Unknown

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1931

Pathway

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on plants (except parasites) – Con Plant

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Transportation of habitat material – THM

Pathway detail

CBD pathways per EASIN (2023).

References

Rutherford MG, Auguste RJ (2018) UWIZM International Lepidoptera Collection. Version 1.3. The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM). Occurrence dataset: https://doi.org/10.15468/qe6juh [Accessed on: 20.12.2021]

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Huemer P, Özden Ö, Rennwald E, Barton I, Junnilainen J, Hausmann A, van Nieukerken EJ, Hebert PDN (2026) Well-Known, Misidentified, or Unnamed? A DNA Barcode-Based Reassessment of the Lepidoptera Fauna of Cyprus Supported by Morphology. Insects 17(1): 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects17010004