Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam
Author
Usinger, Robert L.
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
11
103
book chapter
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11.
Leptoglossus australis
(Fabricius)
.
Cimex australis
Fabricius
,
Syst. Ent.
,
708
,
1775
.
One
specimen
,
Guam
,
Fullaway
(1190
);
two specimens
,
Guam
, 1923,
American
sunflower and milkweed,
Hornbostel
;
13 specimens
,
Barrigada
,
June
12
and 14,
on
Passiflora foetida,
Usinger
;
four specimens
,
Barrigada
,
June
24
,
on
Passiflora
fruit,
Swezey
;
two specimens
,
Barrigada
,
Nov.
25
, at school farm, on sunflower,
Swezey
;
Piti
,
Oct.
10
, on pumpkin,
Swezey
;
two specimens
,
Piti
,
Sept.
26
, on pumpkin,
Swezey
;
two specimens
,
Piti
,
Aug.
28
, on pumpkin,
Swezey
;
three specimens
,
Piti
,
Sept.
5
,
Oct.
17
, on beans,
Swezey
;
two specimens
,
Talofofo
,
Nov.
18
,
Swezey
;
Yigo
,
May
19
,
Usinger
.
Leptoglossus
was found in greatest numbers at Barrigada where eggs, nymphs, and adults were found on
Passiflora foetida
,
feeding on the fruit.
L. australis
is a conspicuous species of wide distribution. In addition
to
Samoa
,
China
records it from
New Caledonia
,
New Hebrides
,
Fiji
, and the Society Islands. I have specimens from all of these regions and can add the
Caroline Islands
and the
Philippines
. The Philippine species has been recorded from earliest times as the widespread Ethiopian and Oriental
membranaceus
(Fabricius) but specimens before me from Mindanao and specimens which I collected on Luzon fall well within the range of variation seen in the Oceanian series. Regardless of possible synonymy, the name
australis
will remain for Pacific specimens because it was described six years earlier than
1nembranaceus.