{{short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | name = False army worm | image = Leucania_loreyi_dorsal.jpg | image_caption = Dorsal view | image2 = Leucania_loreyi_ventral.jpg | image2_caption = Ventral view | taxon = Leucania loreyi | authority = (Duponchel, 1827) | synonyms = *''Acantholeucania loreyi'' <small>(Duponchel, 1827)</small> *''Noctua loreyi'' <small>Duponchel, 1827</small> *''Leucania caricis'' <small>Treitschke, 1835</small> *''Leucania collecta'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Leucania curvula'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Leucania denotata'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Leucania designata'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Leucania exterior'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Leucania thoracica'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Borolia melanostrotoides'' <small>Strand, 1915</small> *''Leucania pseudoloreyi'' <small>Rungs, 1953</small> *''Leucania melanostrotoides'' *''Mythimna loreyi'' }} '''''Leucania loreyi''''', the '''cosmopolitan''', '''false army worm''' or '''nightfeeding rice armyworm''', is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of African countries, the Indo-Australian subtropics and tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the eastern Palearctic realm, and the Near East and Middle East. The species was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1827.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/NOCTUIIDAE/HADENIINAE/leucania%20loreyi.html | title=''Leucania loreyi'', (Duponchel, 1827) | website=African Moths |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |author-link=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |volume=Moths - Vol. II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=31 May 2017 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hade/loreyi.html |title=''Leucania loreyi'' (Duponchel, 1827) Nightfeeding Rice Armyworm |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref>
==Description== left|thumb|in Sri Lanka {{Entomology glossary hatnote}} Its wingspan is about 34–44 mm.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/leucania-loreyi/ | title=The Cosmopolitan Leucania loreyi | publisher=UKMoths |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref> Forewing greyish ochreous; the veins pale lined with brown, the intervals with brown lines; a short black streak from base below cell; median nervure thickly outlined with fuscous to beyond cell; reniform stigma indicated by a white dot at lower angle of cell; outer line by a row of black dots on veins; a triangular brown subapical patch edged above by an oblique pale streak from apex; hindwing white, the veins towards termen fuscous; abdominal tufts beneath formed of coarse scalelike brown black hairs.<ref>Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 ''Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde'', Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914</ref>
==Ecology== The larva is reddish grey, and yellowish between the segments and the dorsal line is fine, grey, and double. The subdorsal lines are divided, interrupted, and all clearer towards the anal segments. spiracles black-ringed. Adults are on wing year round. There are multiple generations per year.<ref>{{cite web |last=Holloway |first=Jeremy Daniel |url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/hadeninae/hadeninae_4_16.php | title=''Mythimna'' (''Acantholeucania'') ''loreyi'' Duponchel | website=The Moths of Borneo |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref>
Recorded food plants in Israel include ''Phragmites australis'', ''Sacharum ravennae'' and Gramineae species.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=Gaden S. |last2=Ackery |first2=Phillip R. |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian J. |last4=Beccaloni |first4=George W. |last5=Hernández |first5=Luis M. |date=2010 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants |title=Search the database - introduction and help |website=HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/havt50xw }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{cite web |last=Kimber |first=Ian |url=https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/leucania-loreyi/ |title=73.304 BF2208 The Cosmopolitan ''Leucania loreyi'' (Duponchel, 1827) |website=UKMoths |access-date=December 11, 2020}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120920194022/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/455/45514005.pdf Hadeninae of Israel] * [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1992.tb00466.x/full A Second Sugarcane Armyworm (''Leucania loreyi'' (Duponchel)) from Australia and the Identity of ''L. loreyimima'' Rungs (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)] * [http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Leucania_Loreyi ''Lepiforum e. V.''] {{in lang|de}}
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Category:Leucania Category:Moths described in 1827 Category:Moths of Africa Category:Moths of Asia Category:Moths of Cape Verde Category:Moths of Europe Category:Moths of Japan Category:Moths of Madagascar Category:Moths of the Middle East Category:Moths of Réunion Category:Taxa named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel Category:Insect pests of millets