List of Lepidoptera that feed on Senecio
Senecio species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera species including:
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Arctiidae[]
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Garden tiger caterpillar
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Nyctemera amicus
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Cinnabar moth caterpillars
- Amerila leucoptera – Afrotropical
- Amerila pannosa – Afrotropical
- Arctia caja, garden tiger – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
- – recorded on in Southern Africa
- Dysschema picta – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Dysschema sacrifica – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Estigmene acrea – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
- Eurata helena – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Eurata strigiventris – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Galtara doriae – Afrotropical
- Galtara extensa – Madagascar - also introduced to Hawaii for biological control of Senecio madagascariensis
- Grammia williamsii – Nearctic
- Hypercompe indecisa – recorded on Senecio crassiflorus in Brazil
- Hypercompe orsa – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- – recorded on in South Africa
- Metarctia lateritia – East Africa
- Nyctemera adversata – Oriental
- Nyctemera amicus, senecio or magpie moth – Australasia
- Nyctemera annulata – recorded on Senecio glomeratus in New Zealand
- Nyctemera apicalis – Afrotropical
- Nyctemera calcicola – Oriental
- – Afrotropical
- Nyctemera itokina – East Africa
- Nyctemera lacticinia – Oriental; on in India
- Nyctemera leuconoe – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in southern Africa; in the Afrotropics
- Nyctemera restrictum – Afrotropical
- Paracles fusca – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Platyprepia virginalis – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the United States
- Rhodogastria amasis – Afrotropical; Southern Africa
- Rhodogastria similis – recorded on in South Africa
- Saenura flava – Afrotropical; southern Africa
- Spilosoma glatignyi – Australia
- Spilosoma lutea, buff ermine – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in Europe
- Tyria jacobaeae, cinnabar moth – recorded on Senecio jacobaea, Senecio vulgaris and Senecio congestus (cosmopolitan)
Bucculatricidae[]
- Bucculatrix eurotiella – Nearctic
- Bucculatrix seneciensis – Nearctic
Choreutidae[]
- Asterivora combinatana – recorded on in Australasia
- Caloreas augustella – recorded on Senecio triangularis in the Nearctic
Crambidae[]
- Scoparia pyralella – UK (unconfirmed)
Geometridae[]
Common eupithecia caterpillar
- Eupithecia absinthiata, wormwood pug – Holarctic; Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Eupithecia bivittata – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the United States
- Eupithecia coagulata – Nearctic; Senecio jacobaea in the US
- Eupithecia miserulata, common eupithecia – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in Nearctic
- Eupithecia subumbrata, shaded pug – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Eupithecia virgaureata, golden-rod pug – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- Orthonama obstipata, gem – Nearctic; Finland; Senecio vulgaris in the British Isles
- – recorded on Senecio vulgaris in the Nearctic
- Xanthorhoe munitata – Nearctic
Gracillariidae[]
- Acrocercops breyeri – recorded on in Argentina
- Phyllocnistis finitima – Nearctic
- Phyllocnistis insignis – recorded on Senecio aureus in Nearctic
Lasiocampidae[]
- – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- – recorded on in Southern Africa
- – East Africa
Lycaenidae[]
- Calephelis borealis – recorded on Senecio obovatus in the Nearctic
- Trimenia wallengrenii, Wallengren's copper – Afrotropical
Nepticulidae[]
- Ectoedemia erythrogenella – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in Cyprus
Noctuidae[]
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Bright-line brown-eye caterpillar
Angle shades caterpillars (two forms)
- Autoplusia olivacea – recorded on in the Nearctic; Senecio jacobaea in the United States
- Cerastis rubricosa, red chestnut – recorded on Senecio vulgaris in the British Isles
- Condica conducta – Madagascar
- Eumichtis lichenea – Palaearctic
- Heliothis peltigera, bordered straw – Old World; Senecio viscosus in the British Isles
- Lacanobia oleracea, bright-line brown-eye – Finland
- Orthosia opima, northern drab – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Naenia typica, gothic – (flowers) UK
- Papaipema insulidens – recorded on Senecio hydrophilus in the Nearctic
- Phlogophora meticulosa, angle shades – Palaearctic
- Polymixis flavicincta, large rananculus – Finland
- – recorded on in Southern Africa
- Trichoplusia ni, cabbage looper – recorded on and Senecio mikanioides in the Nearctic
- Xestia c-nigrum, setaceous Hebrew character – recorded on Senecio vulgaris in Nearctic
- Xestia collina – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in Germany
Nymphalidae[]
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Painted lady caterpillar
- – recorded on in Argentina; Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
- – recorded on Senecio bonariensis in Argentina
- – recorded on Senecio triangularis in the Nearctic
- Vanessa cardui, painted lady – recorded on Jacobaea maritima (cosmopolitan)
- Vanessa virginiensis, American painted lady – recorded on Jacobaea maritima in the New World
Oecophoridae[]
- Agonopterix canadensis – recorded on Senecio serra in the Nearctic
- Agonopterix cinerariae – recorded on , , in the Canary Islands[1]
- – recorded on in the Palaearctic
- Agonopterix dammersi – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
- Agonopterix fusciterminella – recorded on Senecio aronicoides in the Nearctic
- – recorded on Senecio aureus in the Nearctic
Pterophoridae[]
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Emmelina monodactyla
- Emmelina monodactyla – Nearctic
- Hellinsia chrysocomae – British Isles
- Hellinsia osteodactylus – British Isles
- Oidaematophorus lacteodactylus – recorded on Senecio vulgaris in the United States
- Platyptilia calodactyla – Palaearctic
- Platyptilia farfarellus – recorded on Senecio vernalis in Europe
- Platyptilia isodactyla – recorded on Senecio aquaticus in Europe
- Platyptilia nemoralis – recorded on and Senecio nemorensis in Europe
- Platyptilia williamsii – recorded on Senecio aronicoides and Senecio jacobaea in the US
Pyralidae[]
- Ephestiodes gilvescentella – recorded on Senecio blochmaniae in the Nearctic
- Homoeosoma sp. – Madagascar
- Homoeosoma electella – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
- Homoeosoma nebulella – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Homoeosoma nimbella – Palaearctic
- – recorded on Senecio inaequidens in Colombia
- Homoeosoma vagella – Australasia
- Ostrinia orientalis – recorded on in Palaearctic
- Patagoniodes farinaria – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in Australasia
- Perinephela lancealis – British Isles
- Phycitodes sp. – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in Madagascar
- – Palaearctic
- Phycitodes maritima – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Phycitodes saxicola – recorded on (flowers and seedheads of) Senecio jacobaea in the UK
- Scoparia pyralella – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- Udea uliginosalis – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
Saturniidae[]
- – recorded on in the Afrotropics; Southern Africa
Scythrididae[]
- Areniscythris brachypteris – recorded on Senecio blochmaniae in the United States
Tortricidae[]
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Lucerne leaf roller
- Argyrotaenia citrana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
- Cnephasia conspersana – Europe
- Cnephasia genitalana – Europe
- Cochylis atricapitana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
- Cochylis dubitana – (inside flowers and developing seedheads) Palaearctic
- Commophila aeneana – recorded on (roots of) Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
- Deltinea costalimai – recorded on in Argentina
- Eana osseana – Nearctic
- Epiblema costipunctana – recorded (inside stems and roots of) Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in the Palaearctic
- – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
- – Oriental
- Eucosma campoliliana – recorded on (seeds and stems of) Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
- – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
- Lobesia sp. – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in Madagascar
- – recorded on Jacobaea maritima in the Palaearctic
- – recorded on in Japan
- Merophyas divulsana, lucerne leaf roller – Australia
- Phalonidia curvistrigana – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in Europe
- – recorded on Senecio serra in the Nearctic
- Platynota stultana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
- – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
- Sparganothis senecionana – Nearctic
- Syndemis musculana – UK
References[]
- ^ J. Klimesch (1984). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Microlepidopteren-Fauna des Kanarischen Archipels - 7 Beiträg". Vieraea. 14 (1–2): 132–133.
External links[]
- Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W. & Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Hostplant Genus: Senecio". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.
Categories:
- Lists of Lepidoptera by food
- Senecio