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Supplement I to E. C. Zimmerman, “ of Hawaii” Vol. 7 (1958) Macrolepidoptera

J. C. E. Riotte Honolulu, Hawaii

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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Vol. 1, no. 4, December 1986 INSECTA MUNDI 24 1 Zeitschrift 4:161-175. Weise, J. 1907. Hispinen aus Arizona. Uhmann, E. 1950. Die Deckenskulptur von Arch. f. Naturg. 72 :205-209. Oc totoma Suf f r. und verwandten Weise, J. 1911a. Coleopterorum Catalogus, Gattungen. Rev. Entomol. 21:259-276. Chrysomelidae : Hispinae. par. 35:l-94 Uhmann, E. 1957. Coleopterum Catalogus, (Vol. 25). W. Junk, Gravenhage. Supplemanta, Chrysomelidae: Hispinae, Weise, J. 1911b. Coleoptera: Phytophaga, pars 35 ( 1-31 :1-490. W. Junk, Gravenhage. family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Hisp- Ulke, H. 1889. Minutes of the meeting of inae . P. Wytsman, Gene= September 5, 1889. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Insectorup fasc. 125:l-123. plus 4 color Wash. 1:248. plates. Brussels. Ulke, H. 1902. A list of the beetles of Wilcox, J. A. 1954. Leaf beetles of Ohio the District of Columbia. Proc. U. S. (Chrysomelidae : Coleoptera). Ohio Biol. Nat. Mus. 25(1275) :1-57. Sur. Bull. 43:353-506. Van Dyke, E. C. 1925. Notes and descrip- Wilcox, J. A. 1975. Checklist of the tions of new species of west American beetles of Canada, United States, Hispinae (Coleoptera: ~hrysomelidae). Mexico, Central America, and the West Pan Pacific Entomol. 1 :170-173. Indies. Vol. 1, pt. 7, the leaf beetles Weise, J. 1905. Bemerkungen uber isp pin en. (Red Version). Biol. Res. Inst. Amer. Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905:317-320. Latham, NY, 166 pp.

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This supplenrent concerns species of the family Sphing- cut Qahu, in Novdr reported alxwdy £ran Mililani idae (pages 425-444) int- to Hawaii since 1958 and through to Manoa, and the 1975 HCEIR annual summary nw firmly established. The introductions are connected reported the had heccme established on all major with the rapid growth of airtraffic betwen Hawaii and islands: Kauai February 1975; hiAugust 1975; Lanai SE Asia since the mid-1970s. Of special interest is the September 1975; Hawaii Island and Molokai October 1975; fast interisland colonivlticn as reported In the HAWAZI and £run the collecticm of Bishop Museun is added one ccmmmlm EumMIC IMECr REPORP O-IaIR), published by speck with very m and '\lSebcforewings £ran Midway the State Department of Agriculture, knolulu, HI mtil L in May 19751 1980, subaevtly called IwkuI PEST REPORP. An interesting ccntrituticm to the -ledge of The following species are presented according to the distribution by airplane connected with the species date of their first collecticm here. uder discussim is the follawing: Imue (1967, 1974) reported A nerii fran Ckinawa and Anmud-ishima in the L Tkrema (Dnrry), 14 August 1974 at Gmpbll Ryuku Islands. He says ''that the origin (or origines) of Mistrial Park,- Oahu, m. HickaP Air Force Base (HAFB), those strugglers [sic] are untraceable for us!' The specimen in B. P. Bishop Museum. It spread quickly: 7 first specimens Inoue reported are fran December 1%0; Novder 1974 Kauai (Kokee, appraximetely 1,100 m eleva- thm they were ahundant in 1966/67 but seed to have ti&; 8 March 1975 Maui; JIlne 1975 H&wii Island (Hi- disappeared thereafter, cmly to reappear in &rs in lo); Septh 1975 Lanai; October 1975 Moldcai. Members November/December 1973. This question how A nerii, of the gem18 are we11 knam as stmng and rapid basically an Africcn species, came to Okinawa can also flyers. Iarval food plant recarde are rare, so far all be solved in all probability in a similar way aa its are of Dioecorea sp in the Hawaiian Islands. likely cauing frcm Okinawa to Ihmii (there =re to ny knowledge no specimens of the species intercepted eat- 2. Daphnis mrii (Linnaeus), 18 September 1974 at lier than the firat collectiar in the field at HAFB). In HAFB, specimen in the US National Museum of Natural the years before and after hue's reports it 'kwe neoes- History, Washhgtcm, DC (h 4 October 1974 lWXR repar sary to have lninte-ed oil (petrol) supplies to SE ted 50 larvae of mmy instars md omy eggs collected at Asia for udlitary use. Ihe previously hem range £or A HAFB, Pearl Harbor, and on the roadside olewder (&rim nerii was throughout Africa, mply parts of -, Asia oleander) along Nimltz Hi&may £ran the Internatitma1 Minor thra& India and Malaysia Fkm there the route Airport to ~lulu.Ihe species spread rapidly thrm&- to (kinam also for the mth semm very possible. 242 INSECTA MUNDI Vol. 1, no. 4, December 1986

Host plants of A nerii in Hawaii in addition to 1984 in southeastern Kauai (Kip nr. Lihue). There are oleander are. Gardeaia n,&nbia Taitmsie. no records yet fram other islands. mmaiadivarkala, Alataaia~lla,catharartt.., meam, RavDlfia sp, Stemadenfa glaeottiarra, vim% Larval food plants in Hakaii are: Olea a€ri- Oliva sp, Medu obemn (all wted from HCEIR). Pl-ria eumpeea, Jaalnrrultiflauand sadw= Beardsley in sp was also eaten by a reared laboratory-larva but it the above quoted note reports further: Tabehuia pta- died after a few days. phglla, -1pa SpetfPdea -1- OIM- can tulip tree), all the hosts are Oleaceae or Bignoni- The well ham egg parasite Mc- sp was ubi- aceae. Recently on Kauai R C A Rice fdand reared quitous according to HCEZR Presently A nerii is well successfully larvae on an oriental species of established and stabilized in the Hawaiian Islands. and on Clerodendrar philippirm (plants identified by Dr. H. St. John, Botany lkpt., Bishop ~useud. 3. Maacgloesu (But led, 11 July 1976 at Honolulu (Makiki) inside a house on a window by 5. Quarantine interceptions, not known to have estab- entama logist R. C. A Rice. Specimens in B. P. Bishop lished: The US Department of Agriculture and Museun In 1976 it was also wllected on Hawii Island Plant Health Inspection Service, shortly called'wan- (4 October at Hilo) and on Kauai (22 Novder at Lihue) tine," sometimes checks incoming planes at Honolulu and one year later it was also present on Maui (5 August airports, and mug insects recently found alive were at Olinda). No recards frcn~other islands are hum at the following S-dae frun foreign origins: Daphnis this tine torenia be, frun *, &athothlibus erotue (Cra- mer), repeatedly from CXl;rm; Hippotion depictm Dupont, On 20 October 1975 a dead fanale of the spies had fran cxlam; pdlio (~oisduval), fran been wllected by the US Departnent of Agriculture Qua- Singapore. If not intercepted these species could have rantine at a carmercial airplane caning frun 'Lhailand. easily survived and aultiplied in Hamii. Ihe larval food plant appears to be exclusively ra foetida, called in Hawaii 'taaile pilau," an unplea- sant ly smelling rubheow clhbing weed of wide distri- I wish to express my gratitute to the US Departnent of bution in the lowlands. It was also introduced in Ha- Agriculture Aninral and Plant Health Inspection Service waii. hver in FXRXEDINGS OF ZHE WIN -1- for having rmde the intercepted sphingid specinms avai- CAL SOCIfiY for 1977 (Vol. XXIII:163) one finds a note lable; the Hawaii State De-t of Agriculture and by C J. Davis about the capture of adults at Volcano the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of htanr (island of Hawaii) at 1,188-1,371 m elevation where losy, Prof. Dr. J. W. Beardsley, for perndssion to use 'bile pild' has not been observed. 'Ihe adults =re their wl lections; to my col legue at Bishop Museun, Dr. likely of lowland origin. Feeding tests of larvae k~re W. C Gage, for having read the drafts for this paper positive for sp. and Gouldia sp., however, and valuable mggwticna negtive for sp

4. -1- mqhcm (Cram4 the latest newcomer had been intercepted alive by the USA Quarantine in Hawaii Cooperative Econdc Insect Report, 1974-1980, September 1976 in an airplane canfng fmnGuap1; specimen Hawaii State lk-t of Agriculture, Honolulu. in B. P. Bishop Museum. It seems that other specimens Hawaii Pest Report, 1980-present, Hawaii Department of sirmltaneauely escaped and established. Ch 22 Febmary Agriculture, Hamlulu. 1977 a penultimate instar larva of the species was Inoue, H. 1937. ,Discoveries of Daplmir nerii L in Japan wllected by G sing in Manoe Val ley, abcut 10 km east (~phhgidae).Japan kteroc. Jm. no. 48~4%-498. of the EIarolulu International Airport (see note by J. K ------1974. Re-discoveries of lkilephila wrii L Beasrdsley in PWX Em. Nw, BegLrning XXIV:181). from Japan ().- - Japan Heteroc. Journ. NO. in Novenber 1977 more larvae were fdnear HAFB and 79:Oct. adults captured in different parts of Harolulu. fn Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entam~logicalSociety, vols. 1984 the species was evenly distrihted over leeward and XII-XXTV, 1979-1983, nut~mus short notes in 'Wotes windwad eastern Qahu. In March 1983 the first specimen and bd-dbitions" Section. was wllected in northern Kauai and in February