Maruca testulalis (Geyer)

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 : 183

37. Maruca testulalis (Geyer) .

Crochiphora testulalisGeyer, in Hubner, Zutr. Samml. Ex. Schm. 4 (4): 12, figs. 629, 630, 1832.

Maruca testulalis, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 4: 393, 1896; Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 286, 1935.

This is a bean pest widely spread in the tropics of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific islands, Japan, and Australia. It occurs in Hawaii, but was not previously recorded from Guam. Small caterpillars were found in bean pods at Piti , Oct. 17 , and two moths were taken at light, Oct. 14, Swezey .