Ogdoconta cinereola [Guenee] Common Pinkband

Noctuidae

Host Plant: Ambrosia trifida [Giant Ragweed]

 

 

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Determined by: Gentry

Life size

 

Time as pupae and rearing results: As of May 2005 N=

Host plants in database: Compositae- Ambrosia trifida,Eupatorium sp., Xanthium pensylvanicum [Cocklebur]

Parasitoids and predators:

 

Observations and comments: Larvae rest on mid and secondary veins on the undersides of leaves and eat the leaf blade between veins.

 

Location of Vouchers: Tulane University

References: Covell 1975

 

 

 

Collected in New Orleans in the batture.