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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28.
Othreis fullonia
(Clerck)
.
[
Phalaena]
fullonia
Clerck
,!
cones
2:
pl. 48,
1764
.
Ophideres fullonica,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
India
, Moths
2:
560
, fig. 317,
1894
.
Othreis fullonia,
Tams
,
Ins.
Samoa
3
(
4
):
224
,
1935
.
Piti, June 16, at light, Usinger; Asan, Nov. 2, a chrysalis found in webbed leaf on
Erythrina indica
,
moth issued Nov. 9, Swezey.
A few small caterpillars on an
Erythrina
tree at Agat, Oct. 17, may have been this species but we were not successful in rearing them. The tree was nearly defoliated, as though the caterpillars had been very abundant previously. There is
one specimen
in
U. S.
National Museum and one in Bishop Museum, Fullaway, 1911.
This fine large moth has a wide distribution from Africa throughout the Oriental region to New
Guinea
and
Australia
, and to
Fiji
and
Samoa
. We record it for the first time in
Guam
.