Notes On Some Fulgoroidea Of Guam
Author
Swezey, O. H.
Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
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1.
Perkinsiella thompsoni
Muir
,
Haw. Ent. Soc., Proc.
2
:
240
,
1913
.
Piti, May 2;
Fonte Valley, Aug.
7;
Dededo, Aug. 11. All by Swezey.
This sugar cane leafhopper was described from specimens collected in
Guam
by Fullaway in 1911
. It was later collected more abundantly by Muir in Java, which is more likely its home. Eventually it may be found on intervening islands. We found it scarce in
Guam
. It was never conspicuous or numerous enough to be injurious to the cane.
Whenever eggs were found, they were heavily parasitized by a mymarid which apparently is the same species which was introduced from
Queensland
to
Hawaii
in 1904
(
Paranagrus optabilis
Perkins
).
At Sinajana, June 8, of
43 eggs
examined, 80 percent were parasitized
.
At Fonte Valley, Aug. 7, the few eggs found were all parasitized
.
At Dededo, Aug. 11, eggs examined were 78 percent parasitized
.
At the Agricultural School Farm, Piti, April 30, one exit hole of
Ootetrastichus
was seen in a cane leaf, but no other evidence of this parasite was found
. It is apparent that
Paranagrus
has sufficient control of this leafhopper to prevent its being a pest.