Additional Noncotton Hosts of the Boll Weevil and Cotton Leafworm1

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Abstract
The known, naturally occurring, noncotton host plants of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman, and cotton leafworm, Alabama argillacea (Hübner), are Cienfuegosia affinis (H.B.K.), C. heterophylla (Vent.) Garcke, C. sulphurea (St. Hil.), and Thespesia populnea (L.) Soland (Szumkowski 1953b, Lukefahr and Martin 1962). The genera Cienjuegosia and Thespesia are closely related to Gossypium (Hutchinson 1947). The genus Cienfuegosia is of significance because of its wide distribution in North and South America and the likelihood that the boll weevil may have existed on some species of this genus before it was found on cotton in 1880. We have obtained seed of 5 of the 8 described American species and of 1 African species of Cienfuegosia, and of the Asian species, Thespesia lampas Cav. These plants were propagated for study to determine whether the boll weevil would attack them.

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