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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Margaronia indica
(Saunders)
.
Eudioptes indica
Saunders
,
Ent. Soc. London, Trans
.
2
(
1
):
163
, pl. 12, figs.
5-7
,
1851
.
Glyphodes indica,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
India
, Moths
4
:
360
,
1896
.
Margaronia indica,
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
282
,
1935
.
This cucumber and melon pest occurs throughout Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions,
Fiji
,
Samoa
, and Marquesas. It was not previously reĀ ported from
Guam
, and we found only an occasional caterpillar on cucumber, melon, and pumpkin leaves. The only two reared were from Yigo, May 19, on honeydew melon; Piti, Sept. 30, on pepino melon, Swezey. Two caterpillars on cucumber leaves at Agana swamp were parasitized, probably by
Cremastus flavo-orbitalis
,
but as the parasites died in cocoons, I cannot be positive of their identity.