Cryptoblabes augustipenella Ragonot

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 : 177

10. Cryptoblabes augustipenella Ragonot ,

Nouv. Gen., 6, 1888; Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 4: 105, 1896.

Orote Peninsula , May 24, Swezey; Tumon , May 30, Swezey; Merizo , June 11, Swezey; Piti , June 3, 9, 12, 21, July 12, 28, Aug. 9, Sept. 4, 7, Oct. 16, at light, Swezey; one in Bishop Museum, Fullaway , 1911.

This scavenger moth is known in India and Ceylon. We found it very common in Guam, the caterpillars feeding in dead dry plant materials. Moths were reared from caterpillars feeding in old fruits of Barringtonia speciosa , also on dried leaves, flowers and buds, and from leaves of Barringtonia racemosa , from larvae feeding among old seed clusters of Mallotus moluccanus , dried rose petals, and sunflower heads.