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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, an ill-defined and somewhat obscure spot, growing paler or fading into the ground-color at one end, as if daubed or blotted.
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Neem showed considerable potential for controlling various insect pests such as Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura, S. exigua, Hellula undalis, Phyllocnistis citrella, Helicoverpa armigera, Ohiomyia phaseloi, Nephotettix virescens and spider mites
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There are claims of positive results using this method of biological control with several other caterpillars including fall armyworms (Spodoptera litura) and corn earworms (Heliothis zea).
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(Spodoptera litura), whiteflies (Bemisia spp.), spider mites (Tetranychus spp.) and aphids also attack the leaves.
Chapter 32 1987
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_ Cyaneo-viridis; capite pedibusque nigris; antennis piceis, basi rufis; thorace vittis quatuor albidis; abdomine purpureo-cyaneo; alis limpidis, litura basali, fasciis duabus (prima abbreviata, secunda interrupta) strigaque costali apicali nigris.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Cinerea, robusta, fusco conspersa; palporum articulo secundo extus fusco, tertio aciculari longissimo, alarum lineis interiore et exteriore vagis dentatis lineaque media recta sat obliqua squamis fuscis, punctis marginalibus atris, alis anticis acutis, orbiculari punctiformi atra, litura reniformi angusta fusco marginata extus excavata.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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= Similar phrasing in a similar context at _EP_ II iv 17-18 (to Atticus) 'utque meus lima rasus liber esset amici,/_non semel admonitu facta litura tuo est_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Saepi sic vertit, ut integrae paginae nequeant nisi una litura corrigi Arabice non satis callebat, et carebat judicio critico.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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There were in those days no weekly or diurnal writers; _multa dies et multa litura_, much time, and many rasures, were considered as indispensable requisites; and that no other method of attaining lasting praise has been yet discovered, may be conjectured from the blotted manuscripts of Milton now remaining, and from the tardy emission of
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Saepi sic vertit, ut integrae paginae nequeant nisi una litura corrigi
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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P. tcfta tenui inacqualitcr ftriata alba intus margaritacca: vcrcicis litura aurantia annulo flaveiccntc cinflay margine crenaco.
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