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Trichoplusia ni

Cabbage Looper Moth
MONA# 8887
Family Noctuidae

 

   
 

 

Classification

KINGDOM: Animalia

PHYLUM: Arthropoda

CLASS: Insecta

ORDER: Lepidoptera

SUPERFAMILY:

FAMILY: Noctuidae

SUBFAMILY: Plusiinae (Looper moths)

Trichoplusia ni

 

General Species Description
WINGSPAN:
IDENTIFICATION:
RANGE:
FLIGHT:
 
HABITAT:
LARVAL HOST:
ADULT FOOD:

FIELD NOTES:

Coll. Date (mm/dd/yyyy) February 25, 2011
Locality & GPS coords Jacumba Wilderness, Imperial Co.,  CA
Elevation (ft) 700'
Habitat Sonoran/Lower Colorado Desert transition
Host Plant Mohavea confertiflora. (Desert Ghost Flower)
Collector(s) Jennifer Bundy
Field observations  
Ecology Notes  

 

 

 

HABITAT
Jacumba Wilderness
HOST
Mohavea confertiflora. (Desert Ghost Flower)

REARING / LAB NOTES:

Voucher No. 00000
Found as Instar
Food plant used Mohavea confertiflora
Voucher fate 1 pinned adult
Number of days (1st-Ultimate instar)  
Number of days (prepupa) March 2, 2011 (pre-pupal cocoon construction)
Number of days (pupa to eclosion)  
Morphology Notes (ovum, larva, pupa, adult)
 
Behavior notes (ovum, larva, pupa, adult)
spins bulbous silken cocoon

pupation occurred quickly, as well as eclosion of adult
Parasitoids none observed
Para. lep voucher- Para. species- Para. voucher #- N/A
Ultimate instar
lateral
 
Cocoon
Pre pupal cocoon spinning
 
Adult
Adult