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
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book chapter
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Hymeniarecurvalis(Fabricius)
.
TODO
Phalaena recurvalis
Fabricius
,
Ent. Syst.
,
644
,
1775
.
'
Hymenia
recurvalis,
Tams
,
Ins.
<collectingCountry box="[1096,1213,2416,2459]" name="Samoa" pageId="15" pageNumber="178">Samoa</collectingCountry>
3
(
4
):
274
,
1935
.
Sasa, June 22, Swezey;
Piti, Sept. 3, at light, Swezey; Talofofo, Nov. 18, reared from spiny amaranth, Swezey.
Very widely distributed in southern Asia to
Japan
, and to Australian regions,
Samoa
,
Fiji
, Marquesas, and Hawaii. Recorded in
Guam
as a beet pest by Fullaway in 1911. We found its caterpillars abundant on spiny amaranth.
Apanteles gumnensis
var. was reared from some of the larvae. Only a few moths were collected or reared.