List of Lepidoptera that feed on cotton plants
Cotton plants (Gossypium spp) are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including:
Monophagous species which feed exclusively on Gossypium
- Bucculatrix leaf-miners:
:*B. gossypiella
:*B. gossypii
:*B. loxoptila
- Hypercompe campinasa
Polyphagous species which feed on Gossypium among other plants
- Brown-tail (Euproctis chrysorrhoea)
- Bucculatrix leaf-miners:
:*B. ruficoma
:*B. thurberiella
- Cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera)
- Garden Dart (Euxoa nigricans)
- Hypercompe species:
:*H. cermellii
:*H. hambletoni
- Native budworm (Helicoverpa punctigera)
- The Nutmeg (Discestra trifolii)
- Turnip Moth (Agrotis segetum)