Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Brazil: the Big Outbreak Monitored by Light Traps

A Specht, DR Sosa-Gomez, DAM Rios… - Neotropical …, 2021 - Springer
The first detection of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Brazil
pointed to a gloomy future for South American agriculture in the 2012/2013 harvest, and …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characterization and phylogenetic assessment of agricultural-related noctuids (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of South America

GS Blas, EM Baudino, FMS Dias… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Accurate identification of species is fundamental to every biological research. While
morphological identification is a time-consuming and skilled technique, straightforward …

Life-History Parameters of Striacosta albicosta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Under Laboratory Conditions

DG Montezano, TE Hunt, A Specht… - Journal of Insect …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Striacosta albicosta (Smith) is a key pest of maize and dry beans in North America. It has
expanded its distribution from the western Great Plains of the United States to the Great …

Life history traits of Praina temperata (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae): a widely distributed and neglected cutworm of the Neotropics

A Specht, E Carneiro, VF Roque-Specht… - … on Neotropical Fauna …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Information on the cutworm Praina temperata (Schaus, 1894) is restricted to data obtained
from adults and two larval host plants. Based on a data set of systematized collections in …

Cutworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in central Brazil Savanna: temporal distribution and association of species abundance with climatic and meteorological factors

A Specht, FMS Dias, E Carneiro… - Austral …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Population dynamics studies make it possible to predict the response of species to seasonal
and inter‐annual climatic phenomena in hypothetical scenarios of climatic abnormality …

Diamide seed treatment may protect early soybean growth stages against Helicoverpa armigera

PGP Jerez, ACL Alves, JEQ Cortes, LM Ribeiro, JG Hill… - Crop Protection, 2023 - Elsevier
In intensive soybean cropping systems, early-season pest insects such as lepidopteran
larvae can seriously compromise crop establishment. Using a polyphagous global pest ̶ ̶ …

The granulate cutworm (lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Biological parameters under controlled conditions, host plants, and distribution in the Americas

A Specht, FMS Dias, G San Blas… - Journal of Insect …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Feltia subterranea (Fabricius), commonly known as the granulate cutworm, is a common
species of owlet moths (Noctuidae) of major agricultural importance, widely distributed in …

First records of Leucania rawlinsi Adams and L. senescens Möschler (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Brazil: redescription, potential association with Bt maize, larval …

J Cocco, DR Dolibaina, MM Casagrande, A Specht… - Zootaxa, 2019 - europepmc.org
Every year the area of transgenic maize planting in Brazil expands, however, our knowledge
of the fauna of herbivorous insects associated with this genetically modified crop is …

Overlooked South American noctuid species: revalidation of Feltia llanoi stat. rev. and redescription of Feltia brachystria (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

G San Blas, FM Silva Dias, A Specht… - Neotropical …, 2019 - Springer
Feltia llanoi (Köhler, 1953) stat. rev. and its hitherto senior subjective synonym Feltia
brachystria (Hampson, 1903) are two species of noctuid moths with unusual broadly …

Taxonomy of the rivorum species-group of Leucania Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

DR Dolibaina, MM Casagrande, A Specht, OHH Mielke… - Zootaxa, 2019 - europepmc.org
The rivorum species-group of the genus Leucania (Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Leucaniini) is
circumscribed and taxonomically revised, with the inclusion of three species. New taxonomic …