Agrotis longidentifera explained

Agrotis longidentifera, the brown cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae described by George Hampson in 1903. It is found in eastern and southern Africa and several islands in the Indian Ocean.^[1]

The adults have a wing length of about 16 mm and the males have largely bipectinate (like a comb on both sides) antennas.

The larvae can cause extensive damage to germinating Zea mays (maize or corn) plants.

External links

• Kopij . Grzegorz . 2006 . Lepidoptera fauna of Lesotho . Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia . 49B . 1–2 . 137–180 . 2009-12-08 . 2011-07-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726075108/http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_i/pdf/49B(1-2)/11.pdf . dead .
• Book: Kemal . Muhabbet . Koçak . Ahmet Ömer . amp . 2007 . Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera . https://web.archive.org/web/20120219051830/http://www.metafro.be/Members/Cesa/Cesapublafri2.pdf . dead . 2012-02-19 . Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera . 2 . Internet Archive.

Notes and References

1. Web site: J. . De Prins . W. . De Prins . 2017 . Agrotis longidentifera (Hampson, 1903) . Afromoths . November 11, 2017.