List of Lepidoptera that feed on Senecio

Senecio species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of a number of Lepidoptera species including:

Arctiidae

Garden Tiger caterpillar

Nyctemera amicus

Cinnabar Moth caterpillars

• Amerila leucoptera – Afrotropical
• Amerila pannosa – Afrotropical
• Arctia caja Garden Tiger – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
• Diacrisia scita – recorded on Senecio bupleuroides 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
• Metarctia crassa – recorded on Senecio pterophorus 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
• Nyctemera itakina – Afrotropical
• Nyctemera itokina – East Africa
• Nyctemera lacticinia – Oriental; on Senecio edgworthii in India
• Nyctemera leuconoe – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in Southern Africa; Senecio syringifolius 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 Senecio pterophorus 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 Senecio bellidioides 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 USA
• 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
• Microsema gladiaria – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
• Orthonama obstipata Gem – Nearctic; Finland; Senecio vulgaris in the British Isles
• Sabulodes caberata – recorded on Senecio vulgaris in the Nearctic
• Xanthorhoe munitata – Nearctic

Gracillariidae

• Acrocercops breyeri – recorded on Senecio bonariensis in Argentina
• Phyllocnistis finitima – Nearctic
• Phyllocnistis insignis – recorded on Senecio aureus in Nearctic

Lasiocampidae

• Artace litterata – recorded on Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
• Bombycopsis bipars – recorded on Senecio deltoideus in Southern Africa
• Bombycopsis indecora – 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

Bright-line Brown-eye caterpillar

Angle Shades caterpillars (two forms)

• Autoplusia olivacea – recorded on Senecio grandifolius 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 The Gothic – (flowers) UK
• Papaipema insulidens – recorded on Senecio hydrophilus in the Nearctic
• Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades – Palaearctic
• Polymixis flavicincta Large Rananculus – Finland
• Trichoplusia exquisita – recorded on Senecio bupleuroides in Southern Africa
• Trichoplusia ni Cabbage Looper – recorded on Senecio hybridus 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

Painted Lady caterpillar

• Actinote pellenea – recorded on Senecio bonariensis in Argentina; Senecio brasiliensis in Brazil
• Actinote perisa – recorded on Senecio bonariensis in Argentina
• Charidryas palla – 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 Senecio halimifolius, Senecio appendiculatus, Senecio tussilaginis in the Canary Islands^[1]
• Agonopterix cotoneastri – recorded on Senecio fluviatilis in the Palaearctic
• Agonopterix dammersi – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
• Agonopterix fusciterminella – recorded on Senecio aronicoides in the Nearctic
• Agonopterix senecionella – recorded on Senecio aureus in the Nearctic

Pterophoridae

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 Senecio fluviatilis and Senecio nemorensis in Europe
• Platyptilia williamsii – recorded on Senecio aronicoides and Senecio jacobaea in the USA

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
• Homoeosoma oconequensis – recorded on Senecio inaequidens in Colombia
• Homoeosoma vagella – Australasia
• Ostrinia orientalis – recorded on Senecio cannabifolius in Palaearctic
• Patagoniodes farinaria – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in Australasia
• Perinephela lancealis – British Isles
• Phycitodes sp. – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in Madagascar
• Phycitodes carlinella – 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

• Ludia delegorguei – recorded on Senecio deltoideus in the Afrotropics; Southern Africa

Scythrididae

• Areniscythris brachypteris – recorded on Senecio blochmaniae in the United States

Tortricidae

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 Senecio bonariensis in Argentina
• Eana osseana – Nearctic
• Epiblema costipunctana – recorded (inside stems and roots of) Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
• Epiblema hepaticana – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in the Palaearctic
• Epiblema trigeminana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
• Epiphyas sobriana – Oriental
• Eucosma campoliliana – recorded on (seeds and stems of) Senecio jacobaea in the British Isles
• Eucosma nigromaculana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Palaearctic
• Lobesia sp. – recorded on Senecio madagascariensis in Madagascar
• Lobesia cinerariae – recorded on Jacobaea maritima in the Palaearctic
• Lobesia yasudai – recorded on Jacobaea cannabifolia in Japan
• Merophyas divulsana Lucerne Leaf Roller – Australia
• Phalonidia curvistrigana – recorded on Senecio nemorensis in Europe
• Phaneta elongana – recorded on Senecio serra in the Nearctic
• Platynota stultana – recorded on Senecio jacobaea in the Nearctic
• Sonia vovana – recorded on Senecio flaccidus in the Nearctic
• Sparganothis senecionana – Nearctic
• Syndemis musculana – UK

References

External links

• Caterpillar Hostplants Database
• UKMoths