“…The total larval developmental time (including prepupal period) for S. frugiperda of ~15.1 days (Table 2) is similar to that reported for the same species reared under similar temperatures with suitable artificial diets or suitable host plants (e.g., Pencoe & Marti, 1981;Nieto-Hernández & Llanderal-Cázares, 1982;Pitre & Hogg, 1983;Machado et al, 1985;Castro & Pitre, 1988;Rizzo & La Rossa, 1992;Valverde et al, 1995;Silveira et al, 1997;Giolo et al, 2002;Busato et al, 2005Busato et al, , 2008Campos, Boiça Jr, Jesus, & Godoy 2011;Boregas et al, 2013; Martínez-Martínez, Padilla-Cortes, Jarquín-Lopes, Sánchez-García1, & Cisneros-Palacios, 2015). However, even when exposed to similar temperature conditions, there are reports of significantly longer larval development periods when S. frugiperda are fed less adequate artificial diet (Clavijo et al, 1991;Murúa et al, 2003), less suitable host plants (e.g., Marques, 1932;Leiderman & Sauer, 1953;Pencoe & Marti, 1981Nieto-Hernández & Llanderal-Cázares, 1982;Pitre & Hogg, 1983;Silveira et al, 1997;Botton et al, 1998;Lopes et al, 2008;Campos et al, 2011), or obtained from different collection locations (Giolo et al, 2002, Busato et al, 2005, 2008Boregas et al, 2013). Under similar conditions of suitable food and temperature, such variations are related to genetic variation from different geographic locations or biotypes related to the host plant (e.g., Giolo et al, 2002;Busato et al, 2005;Vélez-Arango, Arango, Villanueva, Aguilera, & Saldamando, 2008;Murúa et al, 2008…”