Spodoptera latifascia, commonly known as the lateral-lined armyworm, garden armyworm, or velvet armyworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae found from Central America and the Antilles into North America (from Texas to Florida).
The wingspan is about 42 mm.
Adults are on wing from March to October depending on the location.
Type Locality: Jamaica
Walker (1856)[1] originally described latifascia, placing it in the genus Prodenia.
Basionym: Prodenia latifascia Walker, 1856.
Pogue (2002)[2] revived S. cosmioides (Walker, 1858), as a valid species (though mis-spelled as S. cosmiodes), from synonymy of S. latifascia.