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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21.
Achaea serva
(Fabricius)
.
Noctua serva
Fabricius
,
Syst. Ent.
,
593
,
1775
.
Achaea serva,
Hampson
,
Cat. Lep. Phalaenae
12:
521
, fig. 123,
1913
;
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
216
,
1935
.
This moth has about as wide a range as
A. janata
,
but has not been recorded quite so extensively from Polynesia, only as far east as
Samoa
. Our eight
Guam
specimens were mostly collected at light: Piti, Sept. 13, 20, Oct. 12, Nov. 3, Swezey. One was reared from a pupa found among paper rubbish by a student at the Agricultural School, Piti, Oct. 28. One specimen in
U. S.
National Museum, Fullaway, 1911.