Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 Notes Ten specimens were collected from Tassourte, Ighalene and Timzilite. One male specimen is illustrated in Fig. 11. According to Rungs (1981) and references therein, S. cilium has been recorded in the Middle Atlas, plains and low mountains, including Marrakech, which is considered to be the closest spot to our study localities. However, no earlier records are known from the High Atlas Mountains. The species is considered as a pest of various crops and can proliferate quite rapidly (Rungs 1981, Hatami et al. 2021), which might explain its vast expansion.

Published as part of Fetnassi, Nidal, Er-rguibi, Omar, Aglagane, Abdessamad, Ghamizi, Mohamed & Õunap, Erki, 2025, Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco, pp. e 137839 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e137839, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e137839