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
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5165313
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15.
Earias fabia
(Stoll)
.
Noctua fabia
Stoll
, Pap. Exot.,
4
, pl.
355
, fig. H,
1782
.
Earias fabia,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
<collectingCountry box="[1171,1265,1441,1484]" name="India" pageId="7" pageNumber="170">India</collectingCountry>
, Moths
2
:
133
,
1894
;
Cat. Lep. Phalaenae
11
:
507
,
1912
.
Sasa, June 22, reared from caterpillar feeding in flowers of
A.belmoschus esculentus,
Usinger
; Piti, July 8, at light, Swezey; Piti, Sept. 17, Oct. 10, reared from caterpillars boring the tips of branches of a weed,
Malachra capitata,
Swezey
.
This moth is distributed from
India
and
Ceylon
to
Burma
, Java, Andaman Islands,
Philippines
,
Australia
, and
Fiji
. In
India
, it is called the cotton bollworm on account of the injury to cotton bolls by its caterpillars. In
Guam
, it was recorded by Fullaway in 1911 as a stem borer in cotton. We reared the moths from caterpillars mostly on weeds.