Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius)

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

31. * Anticarsia irrorata (Fabricius) .

Noctua irrorata Fabricius, Spec. Ins. 2: Appendix, 506, 1781.

Anticarsia irrorata, Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 227, 1935.

Piti , Sept. 11, one specimen at light, Swezey. Oakley collected it more abundantly in 1938 .

This moth was described from India. It is also recorded from Madagascar, Rapa, Society Islands, and Samoa, indicating a wide range of distribution. Now recorded from Guam for the first time.