Creontiades stramineus (Walker)

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 62

56. Creontiades stramineus (Walker) .

Capsus stramineus Walker, Cat. Heteropt. Brit. Mus. 6: 120, 1873.

Four specimens, Piti, April 30, on yerbas babue, Usinger ; three specimens, May 2, Swezey ; one specimen, June 20, Usinger ; one specimen, Piti , hills, on sedges, June 3, Swezey ; two specimens, Mt. Tenjo , May 3, Usinger ; two specimens, Mt. Tenjo , May 3, Swezey ; two specimens, Dededo , May 11, on Piper guahamense, Swezey and Usinger ; one specimen, Inarajan , May 7, Usinger ; one specimen, Machanao , Aug. 6, on spiny amaranth, Swezey ; one specimen, Fadian , Aug. 19, on Sida, Swezey ; one specimen, Upi Trail , May 5, on ferns, Swezey ; one specimen, Talofofo , Nov. 18, Swezey ; one specimen, Mt. Alifan , May 21, Usinger ; one specimen, Guam, Fullaway (1181); TODO six specimens, Yigo , April 13, Bryan .

Reported from India, Ceylon, Java, Philippines, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz I., "Mariannen: Agrigan!, M. A. Marche", Fiji, Samoa, and Formosa.

Other material before me includes a specimen from Los Banos, Philippine Islands, a specimen from Amboina , collected by Muir, several specimens from Palau and Truk, Carolines, Ono, and one specimen from Tubuai , Austral Islands, Zimmerman.

Van Duzee's records of the New Caledonian insularis Poppius [Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4(22): 115, 1937] are entirely confused. After studying his material, it is evident that the Solomon Island specimens are straniineus, though the first antenna! segment is even longer than in specimens from other localities. One specimen from Pitcairn and one from Mangareva agree with stramineus while the remaining material, including one specimen from Pitcairn and all of the specimens from the Australs and the Marquesas, belongs to samoanus Knight. Both samoanus and stramineus are now known to occur on Tutuila and Upolu in Samoa, on Tubuai in the Australs and on Pitcairn. The much larger insularis Poppius from New Caledonia is quite distinct. The Tahitian pacificus Stal may not even belong to the Pacific island fauna, because many of the localities recorded on the Eugenies Resa expedition were erroneous (Kirkaldy, Soc. ent. Belg., Ann. 51: 120-122, 1907).