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Keywords: defoliators, Mythimna separata, distribution, alternative host plants, description, morphology of egg, larva, pupa, adult, bionomics, life history, damage, outbreaks, cultural control, tillage, burning of stubble after harvest, digging trenches, kerosene on paddy water, hand netting, mechanical control, chemical control, biological control, parasitoids, predators, Surinam toad, birds, Mythimna convecta,

Pseudaletia (=Mythimna) unipuncta, Mythimna loreyi, Mythimna pseudoloreyi, Mythimna venalba, Mythimna albistigma, Leucania compta, Leucania insularis, Leucania irregularis, Leucania roseilinea, Lecuania yu, Leucania aspersa, Leucania phaea, Leucania curvula, Spodoptera mauritia, Spodoptera littoralis, Spodoptera litura, Spodoptera frugiperda, Spodoptera exempta, Spodoptera exigua, Spodoptera triturata, Spodoptera pecten, Spodoptera cilium, Agrotis ipsilon, Agrotis c-nigrum, Agrotis segetum, Mocis latipes, Mocis frugalis, Naranga aenescens, Heliocoverpa (=Heliothis) armigera, Ampycodes pallidicosta, Achaea catocaloides, Euxoa longidentifera, Plusia chalcites, Plusia lectula, Euclidisema alcyona, Spodoptera eridania, Feltia experta, Grammodes geometrica, Phyllanthus