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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38.
Psara licarsisalis
(Walker)
.
Botys licarsisalis
Walker
, Cat.
18
:
686
,
1859
.
Pachyzancla licarsisalis
,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
<collectingCountry box="[1360,1454,393,435]" name="India" pageId="21" pageNumber="184">India</collectingCountry>
, Moths
4
:
402
,
1896
.
Psara licarsisalis
,
Tams
,
Ins.
<collectingCountry box="[1030,1147,443,487]" name="Samoa" pageId="21" pageNumber="184">Samoa</collectingCountry>
3
(
4
):
286
,
1935
.
Piti, May 8, 22, July 27, Aug. 11, 16, 24, Sept. 4, 11, 12, 13, 28, Oct. 6, 18, Nov. 26; Agana, May 15; Tarague, May 17; Orote Peninsula, Aug. 2. All by Swezey. Five specimens in
U. S.
National Museum and one in Bishop Museum, Fullaway, 1911
.
Widely distributed from
India
,
Ceylon
,
Malacca
,
China
,
Japan
, Java, Borneo,
Marshall Islands
,
Fiji
,
Samoa
, Society Islands, Austral Islands, and
Australia
. It was common in
Guam
, many coming to light at Piti. Fullaway reported a pyraustid moth (probably this species) which was destructive to lawns in 1911. We did not find it so abundant as to be injurious, but found its caterpillars feeding in the turf in grasslands, hiding under bits of board and under edges of dried cow droppings, or in webbed dead grass leaves. The moths were very abundant among weeds in a cornfield adjacent to a
Panicuni
grass field, but at the time I did not find any caterpillars.