Published December 20, 1942
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Cosmophila flava Boisduval 1833
Authors/Creators
- 1. Experiment Station Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu
Description
29.Cosmophila:flava:flava (Fabricius).
Noctua flava Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 601, 1775.
Cosmophila flava flava, Tams, Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 21, pl. 1, fig. 1; pl. 2, fig. 3; pl. 3, fig. 6, 1924; Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 225, 1935.
Mt. Alifan, May 21, on Hibiscus tiliaceus, Swezey; Piti, Sept. 17, on Malachra and Urena, Swezey; Piti, Sept. 26, on H. tiliaceus, Swezey.
Widely distributed throughout the tropics of the Old World, Japan, Formosa, and the Pacific islands to Fiji, Samoa, Society Islands, and Marquesas. Not previously recorded from Guam. All of our dozen specimens were reared from green caterpillars feeding on Hibiscus tiliaceus, Malachra capitata, and Urena sinuata, all plants of the Malvaceae. They were more often found on Malachra than on the other plants mentioned.
Notes
Published as part of Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, pp. 163-185 in Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189 on page 174, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5165313
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.5165313 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8AFFC0E94BFFA1FFCF823D9276034F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1936-05-21 , 1936-09-17 , 1936-09-26
- Verbatim event date
- 1936-05-21 , 1936-09-17 , 1936-09-26
- Scientific name authorship
- Boisduval
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Cosmophila
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cosmophila Boisduval, 1833 sec. Swezey, 1946