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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23.
Marasmia venilialis
(Walker)
.
Asopia venilialis
Walker
,
List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus.
17
:
373
,
1859
.
Marasmia venilialis,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
India
, Moths
4
:
276
,
1896
;
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
275
,
1935
.
Piti, May 2, 8, 22, Sept. 1, 15; Talofofo, May
7;
Agana, May 15, 25; Sasa, June 22; Mt. Alifan, June 19; Dededo, Sept.
7,
all reared by Swezey, except a few taken at light. One specimen in Bishop Museum and two in
U. S.
National Museum, Fullaway, 1911.
This is a smaller moth than the preceding and is a leafroller on various grasses. We reared it from
Panicum barbinode
,
Paspalum conjugatum
,
and
Oplismenus compositus
.
This moth also has a wide distribution in the tropics: Africa, Asia,
Japan
, Borneo,
Australia
, Solomons,
Fiji
,
Samoa
, Society Islands, and Austral Islands, but not in Hawaii. Its work on grass was noted in 1911 by Fullaway, but its name was not determined.