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.
Eurrhyparodes tricoloralis
(Zeller)
.
Botys tricoloralis
Zeller
,
Lep. Micropt. Caffr.
,
31
,
1852
.
Eitrrhyparodes tricoloralis,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
<collectingCountry box="[1319,1414,737,779]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">India</collectingCountry>
, Moths
4
:
264
,
1896
;
Tams
,
Ins.
<collectingCountry box="[760,881,786,829]" name="Samoa" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">Samoa</collectingCountry>
3
(
4
):
275
,
1935
.
Talofofo, May
7,
Nov. 18; Agana, May 16; Mt. Alifan, May 21; Dededo, Sept.
7;
Mt. Tenjo, Sept. 22; Piti, Nov. 4, at light. All by Swezey.
Of wide distribution in Africa,
India
,
Ceylon
, Java,
Australia
,
Fiji
,
Samoa
and Austral Islands. Now recorded for the first time in
Guam
. Its caterpillars were abundant as leafrollers on
yerbas babue.
Nearly all of our specimens were reared from this weed.