Cosmolyce boeticus (Linnaeus)

Swezey, O. H., 1942, Lepidoptera, Butterflies of Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Biship Museum, pp. 31-38 : 37

14. Cosmolyce boeticus (Linnaeus) . *

Papilio boeticus Linnaeus , Syst. Nat. 1 (2): 789, 1767.

Polyommatus boetícus (Linnaeus) Kershaw , Butterflies of Hong Kong, 75, pl. 9, figs. 2, 10, 1907.

Cosmolyce baetica (Linnaeus) Toxopeus, Tijdschr. Ent. 70: 268, 1927 »;

C osmolyce boeticus (Linnaeus) I-Iemming, Entomologist 66: 224, 276, 1933. *

This is a widespread butterfly in the Orient and Pacific regions. It is abundant in Hawaii. It was recorded in Guam by Fullaway in 1911 . Our specimens were nearly all from Barrigada (june 12 , 14, Swezey ), where they were associated with the weed Crotalaria saltiaøza, the larvae feeding in the pods . There was a dense growth of this weed in a fallow corn field. It was about the only place where we observed this plant. One specimen of the butterfly was reared from pod of Crotalaria quinqueƒolia growing sparsely in fallow rice fields at Sasa, june 22, Swezey . The same trichogrammatid parasite which was reared from eggs of Catopsilia crocale was also reared from eggs of this butterfly.