Nacoleia diemenalis (Guenee)

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 : 180-181

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5165313
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5171088
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scientific name	Nacoleia diemenalis (Guenee)
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26. Nacoleia diemenalis (Guenee) .

Asopia diemenalis Guenee, Spec. Gen., Lep. 8: 203, 1854.

Nacoleia diemenalis, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 4: 316, 1896; Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 278, 1935.

Agana , May 4, 25; Talofofo , May 7; Yona , May 12; Inarajan , June 14; Sumay Road , June 22; Piti , Sept. 8, 15, Oct. 2, 6, 17; Asan , Aug. 19, all by Swezey. One specimen in Bishop Museum, Fullaway , 1911.

This bean leafroller is distributed from Africa, India, and Ceylon to Burma, Andamans, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Formosa, Fiji, Society Islands, Austral Islands, and Samoa. It does not seem to have been previously recorded in Guam. We found it quite common, and bean leaves were often copsiderably injured by its caterpillars. Our specimens were reared mainly from pole beans, also from pigeon pea and Flemingia strobilifera . A few moths were taken at light.