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Leucania stenographa

Sugarcane Armyworm

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Sugarcane Armyworm, Pacific Wainscot

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: India - Indonesia / Australia - Cooks - Austral Islands; Land, lowlands

KEY FEATURES: Medium moth (17mmTL) buff with a longitudinal streak on fore wings and pearly white hindwings.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Leucania stenographa Lower, 1900
SYNONYMS: Mythimna (Acantholeucania) loreyimima (Rungs, 1953) [according to CSIRO]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Lepidoptera; NOCTUIDAE. COMMENT: It is unclear if Cooks has Leucania/Mythimna loreyi and Leucania/Mythimna loreyimima [=Leucania stenographa] - GMcC 7/2005

More Information

IDENTIFICATION: Medium moth (17mmTL) buff with a longitudinal streak on fore wings and pearly white hindwings. Fore wings more or less oblong, pallid with a central (discal) brownish streak from base to apex becoming paler towards terminal edge; a single dark dot at 1/3rd wing length and a white dot at about half wing length, discally. Hind wings pearly white on both surfaces , fringe white, minute black spots terminally on veins. [???Forewing?] underside with greyish brown streaks and terminal dots. Head and Thorax brown. Abdomen and Legs greyish brown. Antennae dark brown, threadlike.

GENERAL NOTE: Caterpillar on grasses, particularly kikuyu-like grasses; body buff with a rather hazy subdorsal line, head capsule with a "greek chi" mark dorsally

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: BESO99, specimen #653, ID J.Dugdale 4/2000.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTXmx, zB02, zM04b, zupM05b, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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