Protoparce sexta

Prodenia ornithogalli (Guenee) Protoparce sexta (Johannson) Rhyacionia buoliana (Schiffermuller) Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock) Spodoptera exigua (Hiibner) Synanthedon pictipes (Grote and Robinson)... 

Ouye and Butt 32) have recently shown that a stable sex attractant for males can be extracted from copulating pairs of pink boUworm moths [Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders)], with ether or methylene chloride, and Allen and coworkers ) have reported the extraction of a potent sex attractant from the abdomens of female tobacco homworm moths [Protoparce sexta (Johannson) ] with these same solvents. The chemical nature of these attractants as well as that of the southern armyworm moth [Prodenta eridania (Cramer) ] is at present under investigation in U. S. Department of Agriculture laboratories. 

Type I, represented by the silkworm (Bombyx mori), the Chinese oak silkworm (Antherea pemyi Guerin), the tobacco hornworm [Protoparce sexta (Johannson)], and the tomato hornworm [Proto-parce quinquemaculata (Hawthorn)], responds to the toxin by exhibiting a total paralysis within 1 to 7 hours. Later it was shown that the guts of these insects become paralyzed within 20 to 30 minutes after consuming crystal toxin. 

Figure 5.8d. Moth of Protoparce sexta grown on Datura in Poznan, Poland.

Waldbauer, G.P. G. Fraenkel. 1961. Feeding on normally rejected plants by maxillecto-mized larvae of the tobacco homworm, Protoparce sexta (Lepidoptera Sphingidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 54 477-485. 

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