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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2.
Utetheisa pulchelloides
subspecies
umata
Jordan
.
Utetheisa pulchelloides
Hampson
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
VII,
19
:
239
,
1907
.
Utetheisa pulchelloides umata
Jordan
,
Nov. Zool.
41
:
281
,
1939
.
Umatac, March 28, Bryan; Tarague, May 17, Swezey, Usinger, reared from numerous caterpillars on
Messerschmidia argentea
.
This
pretty red-spotted moth is widely distributed from the
Seychelles
and Ceylon to
Singapore and Formosa
,
Gilbert
,
Marshall
,
Ellice
and
Solomon Islands
,
New
Guinea,
Queensland
,
Samoa
,
Tuamotus
, and
Wake Island
.
Jordan
has given subspecific names to the forms occuring in the different groups of islands.
The
differences are very slight.
The
form
umata
was described from
four male
.and
two female
specimens from
Guam
,
October 1894
and
April 1895
, in the Rothschild collection_
The pupa is
13 mm
., formed in a slight webbing in a crumpled leaf or secluded place; very dark brown, nearly black. Apex very blunt, cremaster with a few slender bristles.