About Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852
Spodoptera cilium was first described by Guenée in 1852. It has several common names: dark mottled willow, lawn caterpillar, and grasslawn armyworm. This species is a noctuid moth. It is distributed across most of sub-Saharan Africa, western, southern, and south-eastern Asia, and multiple countries in southern and eastern Europe. It migrates to northern Europe, and has been recorded at least nine times in the United Kingdom. The larva of this moth feeds on Oryza, and it is sometimes classified as a pest.
