Pyrausta phoenicealis

41. Pyrausta phoenicealis (Hubner). Pyralis phoenicealis Hiibner, Zutr. Samml. Ex. Schm. 1: 22, figs. 115, 116, 1818. Pyrausta phoenicealis Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 4: 431, 1896. Talofofo plateau, June 17, reared from leafroller on Elephantopus spicatus, Swezey; Sasa, June 22, Swezey; Piti, July 13, 28, Oct. 6, Nov. 4, reared from Eleph ~ntopus, and two specimens at light, Swezey; Dandan, July 17, reared from Elephantopus and a weed of the mint family, Swezey. One specimen in Bishop Museum, Fullaway, 1911. This moth has a very wide distribution: North and South America, West Indies, Africa, India, China, and Australia. Now recorded from Guam for the first time.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 page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516531