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 multilinealis
(Kenrick)
.
Glyphodes multilinealis
Kenrick
,
Zool. Soc. London, Proc
.,
83
, pl. 4, fig. 173,
1907
.
Margaronia multilinealis,
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
284
,
1935
.
Moths were reared from Yona, May 12, Machanao, June 30, Orote Peninsula, Sept. 1, Swezey; Piti, at light, Aug. 13, 17, Swezey. One specimen at
U. S.
National Museum and one at Bishop Museum, Fullaway, 1911.
Described from New
Guinea
. Recorded also from
Samoa
and Society Islands. In
Guam
we reared it from leafroller caterpillars on a species of
Ficus
with narrow leaves. The young terminal leaves were rolled and fastened together, and the caterpillar fed within. They were sometimes very abundant.