Cosmophila:flava:flava (Fabricius), 1833

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 174

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.