Nacoleia diemenalis

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.Published as part of Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, pp. 163-185 in Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189 on pages 180-181, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516531