Earias fabia (Stoll)

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 : 170

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5165313
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5223490
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387B8-E94C-FFA6-FE74-870696840486
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Earias fabia (Stoll)
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15. Earias fabia (Stoll) View in CoL .

Noctua fabia Stoll, Pap. Exot., 4, pl. 355, fig. H, 1782.

Earias fabia, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 2: 133, 1894; Cat. Lep. Phalaenae 11: 507, 1912.

Sasa, June 22, reared from caterpillar feeding in flowers of A.belmoschus esculentus, Usinger ; Piti , July 8, at light, Swezey; Piti , Sept. 17, Oct. 10, reared from caterpillars boring the tips of branches of a weed, Malachra capitata, Swezey .

This moth is distributed from India and Ceylon to Burma, Java, Andaman Islands, Philippines, Australia, and Fiji. In India, it is called the cotton bollworm on account of the injury to cotton bolls by its caterpillars. In Guam, it was recorded by Fullaway in 1911 as a stem borer in cotton . We reared the moths from caterpillars mostly on weeds.