| Lawn armyworm
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Superfamily:
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Noctuoidea
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| Family:
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Noctuidae
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| Genus:
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Spodoptera
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| Species:
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S. mauritia
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| Binomial name
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Spodoptera mauritia
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| Synonyms
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- Hadena mauritia Boisduval, 1833
- Agrotis aliena Walker, 1865
- Laphygma gratiosa Walker, 1865
- Orthosia margarita Hawthorne, 1897
- Agrotis yernauxi Hulstaert, 1924
- Spodoptera acronyctoides Guenée, 1852
- Spodoptera acronyctiformis Guenée, 1852
- Spodoptera filum Guenée, 1852
- Spodoptera nubes Guenée, 1852
- Euxoa ogasawarensis Matsumura, 1926
- Prodenia infecta Walker, 1856
- Prodenia insignata Walker, 1856
- Prodenia permunda Walker, 1857
- Agrotis transducta Walker, [1857]
- Agrotis bisignata Walker, 1865 (preocc. Celaena bisignata Walker, 1865)
- Laphygma squalida Walker, 1865
- Agrotis submarginalis Walker, 1865
- Hadena obliqua Walker, 1865
- Prodenia venustula Walker, 1865
- Hermonassa formosana Matsumura, 1913
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Spodoptera mauritia, the lawn armyworm or paddy swarming caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833. Able to eat many types of food, it is a major pest throughout the world.