Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam
Author
Swezey, O. H.
Experiment Station Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu
text
1946
1942-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
163
185
book chapter
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19.
Anua tongaensis
Hampson
,
Cat. Lep. Phalaenae
12
:
434
, pl. 214, fig. 11,
1913
;
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
215
,
1935
.
Two specimens were procured in
Guam
: Machanao, June 2, Swezey;
Piti, May 1, three small looping larvae on
Styphelia
in the hills above the town, one of which was reared, Swezey. One specimen in
U. S.
National Museum, Fullaway, 1911.
This moth is not yet widely known, having been recorded from Tongatabu,
Fiji
, and
American Samoa
.
The full grown caterpillar was
50 mm
.; grayish, with yellowish background and numerous longitudinal crinkly blackish lines; head whitish with several longitudinal brown lines; spiracles oval, pale; abdominal prolegs on segments 6,
7,
8, 9, those on segments 6 and
7
smaller than the others; two dorsal, slightly prominent tubercles on segment 11. Pupation took place June 25, 65 days from its capture. The pupa was formed in leaves webbed together. it was
23 mm
.; dark brown; wing sheaths terminating roundly at apical margin of the fourth abdominal segment; cremaster not produced, a few hooks on thickened dorsal edge of apical segment. The adult moth issued July
7,
after 12 days in pupal stage.