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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1.
Eumelea rosalia
(Cramer)
.
Phalena rosalia
Cramer
,
Pap. Exot.
4
:
152
, pl. 368, fig. F,
1781
.
Eumelea rosalia,
Hampson
,
Fauna Brit.
India
, Moths
3:
320
, fig. 155,
1895
.
This orange-yellow moth has a distribution throughout
India
,
Ceylon
,
Burma
,
China
,
Formosa
, and Malayan and Austro-Malayan subregions. We obtained a single specimen in
Guam
. It was reared from a looping caterpillar on
Macaranga thompsoni,
Mt. Alifan
, May 21, Swezey. The adult moth issued June 6. Similar looping caterpillars were collected from
Macaranga
at Dededo, August 11 and Fadian, September 18, but they failed to mature, so it is. not certain whether they were the same species.