@article {231, title = {Notes on food habits of Lepidoptera in Samoa}, journal = {Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological SocietyProceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society}, volume = {11(2)}, year = {1942}, note = {Tortricidae: Spilonota holotephras (leaf-tier of guava); Crocidosema plebejana (buds \& fruit of Sida rhombifolia); Bactra microtripta (seeds of Desmodium umbellatum); Cryptophlebia rhynchias (green pods of Erythrina)}, pages = {202-216}, keywords = {Agonoxenidae, Bactra, Cosmopterigidae, Crocidosema, Cryptophlebia, Danaidae, distribution, Gelechiidae, Geometridae, Glyphipterygidae, Gracillariidae, Heliodinidae, HOST, LEPIDOPTERA, Lyonetiidae, Noctuidae, Nymphalidae, Pacific Insects, Papilionoidea, Pterophoridae, Pyralidae, Samoa, Satyridae, Sphingidae, Spilonota, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE}, author = {Swezey, O. H.} } @inbook {198, title = {Host plant use, diversification, and coevolution: Insights from remote oceanic islands}, booktitle = {Evolutionary biology of plant and insect relationships}, year = {2008}, pages = {151-161}, publisher = {University of California Press}, organization = {University of California Press}, address = {Berkeley}, abstract = {Many advances in the understanding of insect-plant interactions have come from examining particular taxa or systems in isolation. Here, we examine the contribution of studies on remote oceanic islands to our understanding of insect-plant interactions. For ecological and evolutionary studies, island systems offer a number of advantages that stem from their isolation, small size, well-defined boundaries, and that they can be used as replicate systems. Unlike recent introductions to islands where many of the insect herbivores show generalist associations, among indigenous species the majority are endemic and show varying levels of host specialization. We examine patterns of of host specialization, plant-associated diversification, cospeciation, symbiosis, and plant hybridization across a range of island systems, though most work to date has focused on the Macaronesian Islands and the Hawaiian archipelago. Advances in molecular and analytical approaches have opened new avenues for research, such as the ability to calibrate the ages of both insect and plant lineages and to examine the demographic history of individuals within populations. Island insect-plant systems illustrate that allopatric isolation in particular, but also host switching to related hosts, are important correlates of insect diversification. Observations of cospeciation are rare, but this may be a consequence of studying periods of rapid host adaptation and diversification in which patterns of cospeciation, if they exist, may be obscured. Island systems offer many opportunities to expand our understanding of factors that promote host-associated diversification, including the roles of internal and external symbionts and plant hybrids.}, keywords = {allopatric, Aphanarthrum, Arecaceae, Asteraceae, canary-islands, coevolution, Coleoptera, Crambidae, CURCULIONIDAE, Delphacidae, Dubautia, Epicephala, Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae, gene flow, Glochidion, Gracillariidae, HAWAII, Hemiptera, host shift, LEPIDOPTERA, Liparthrum, Miridae, Myocalles, Nesosydne, Omiodes, Pacific Insects, Pacific Islands, Phyllanthaceae, PLANTS, Pritchardia, Psyllidae, Scolytidae, SPECIATION, Wolbachia}, author = {Roderick, G. K. and Percy, D.M.}, editor = {Tilmon, K.J.} } @article {142, title = {Lepidoptera. Micro-Lepidoptera}, journal = {Insects of SamoaInsects of Samoa}, volume = {3(2)}, year = {1927}, pages = {65-116}, keywords = {Acroclita, Adoxophyes, Agonoxenidae, Alucitidae, Ancylis, Argyroploce, Articolla, Blastobasidae, Carposinidae, Copromorphidae, Cosmopterigidae, Crocidosema, Crusimetra, distribution, Dudua, Eucosma, Gelechiidae, Glyphipterygidae, Gracillariidae, Heliodinidae, Hyponomeutidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lyonetiidae, Pacific Insects, Peronea, Polychrosis, Pterophoridae, Samoa, Spilonota, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE}, author = {Meyrick, E.} } @article {143, title = {The Micro-Lepidoptera of the "St. George" Expedition}, journal = {Transactions of the Entomological Society of LondonTransactions of the Entomological Society of London}, volume = {76(2)}, year = {1929}, note = {Publication says 1928 (published "December 31, 1928"), but references to it by Clarke and review of Meyrick publications by Fletcher say 1929}, pages = {489-521}, abstract = {In the Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. for 1926, pp. 269-278, I discussed the Micro-Lepidoptera obtained during the "St. George" Expedition, 1924-1925, from the Galapagos and the island of Rapa. In May of this present year the remainder of the Micro-Lepidoptera collected in other localities in the course of the same expedition were also placed in my hands by the British Museum authorities; these have been investigated, and the results which are now set forth should be read in connection with those given in the previous paper quoted, which are not repeated here except where necessary. The types are preserved in the British Museum. Over 1000 specimens were included in the present consignment, of which about two-thirds are from Pacific islands, the remaining third being from small islands closely adjacent to the American coast; these two sections are entirely unrelated, and are treated separately. The majority of the specimens were collected by Mr. C.L. Collenette and Miss C.E. Longfield, including all those where no captor is specially mentioned; but a proportion were taken by Miss L.E. Cheesman, and in the case of these her name in always recorded.}, keywords = {Acroclita, Amorbia, Argyroploce, Austral Islands, Bactra, Capua, Carposinidae, Columbia, Cosmopterygidae, Crocidosema, Dichelopa, Eucosma, French Polynesia, Gelechioidea, Glyphipterygidae, Gracillariidae, Hyponomeutidae, Laspeyresia, LEPIDOPTERA, Lyonetiidae, Marquesas, Nesoscopa, Oecophoridae, Orneodidae, Pacific Insects, Panama, POLYNESIA, Pterophoridae, Society Islands, Sparganothis, Spilonota, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Tuamotu}, author = {Meyrick, E.} } @article {131, title = {Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2}, number = {January 2009}, year = {2007}, pages = {< http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org >}, publisher = {Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust}, address = {Rarontonga}, abstract = {This website has been developing since March 2003. The Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust gratefully acknowledges those who have made the website possible, and gives a special meitaki ma{\textquoteleft}ata to the Bishop Museum for hosting the website.}, keywords = {arctiidae, Bactra, Carposinidae, checklist, Choreutidae, Cook Islands, Cosmopterigidae, Crambidae, Cryptophlebia, distribution, Dudua, Gelechiidae, Gelechioidea, Geometridae, Gracillariidae, Heleanna, Hyblaeidae, immidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lycaenidae, Noctuidae, Nymphalidae, Pacific Insects, Plutellidae, Pterophoridae, Pyralidae, Pyraloidea, Sphingidae, Strepsicrates, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Tritopterna}, author = {McCormack, Gerald} } @article {92, title = {Repeated colonization of remote islands by specialized mutualists}, journal = {Biology LettersBiology Letters}, volume = {8}, number = {2}, year = {2012}, month = {April 23, 2012}, pages = {258-261}, abstract = {Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature, but constraints imposed by specialization may limit their ability to colonize novel environments synchronously. The ability of mutualisms to reassemble following disturbance is central to understanding their response to global change. Here, we demonstrate that a highly specialized pollination mutualism considered to be obligate (Phyllanthaceae: Glochidion; Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Epicephala) has colonized some of the world{\textquoteright}s most isolated archipelagoes, and we record, to our knowledge, for the first time the presence of Epicephala moths from 19 host Glochidion species on 17 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Our findings appear to offer a remarkable example of mutualism persistence in an insect{\quotesinglbase}{\"A}{\`\i}plant interaction characterized by reciprocal specialization and mutual dependence. These findings also appear to contradict the island biogeography paradigm that taxa with specialized biotic interactions are unlikely to colonize oceanic islands.}, keywords = {BIOGEOGRAPHY, Epicephala, French Polynesia, Glochidion, Gracillariidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Pacific Insects, Phyllanthaceae}, author = {Hembry, David H. and Okamoto, Tomoko and Gillespie, Rosemary G.} } @article {93, title = {Phytophagous insect community assembly through niche conservatism on oceanic islands}, journal = {Journal of BiogeographyJournal of Biogeography}, volume = {40}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, pages = {225-235}, abstract = {Aim To determine whether a community of phytophagous insects on oceanic islands (the fauna of insects feeding internally on Glochidion trees in south-eastern Polynesia) was assembled predominantly through niche conservatism or adaptive radiation. Location The islands of south-eastern Polynesia (southern Cook, Austral, Society, Tuamotu-Gambier and Marquesas archipelagos) in the Cook Islands and French Polynesia. Methods Internally feeding insects were collected as larvae from 23 endemic species of Glochidion (Euphorbiaceae s.l., Phyllanthaceae: Phyllanthus s.l.) trees on 20 islands in south-eastern Polynesia, reared and identified. Rearing records were compared with host records previously known from the literature and museum collections of closely related taxa in Asia and Australasia. Results Ninety per cent of insect specimens collected fall into five taxa previously known to attack Glochidion in Asia and Australasia (>=~6000~km distant), indicating a strong role for niche conservatism in the assembly of this community. Three of these taxa, two seed-feeding moths (Gracillariidae: Epicephala; Tortricidae: Tritopterna) and a leaf-mining moth (Gracillariidae: Diphtheroptila) are only known from Phyllanthaceae or Euphorbiaceae s.l. on continents. Two more taxa, another leaf-mining moth (Gracillariidae: Caloptilia) and a leaf-rolling moth (Tortricidae: Dudua), contain many species known only from Phyllanthaceae on continents, and are also very likely to represent examples of niche conservatism. Conversely, many numerically dominant insect taxa known from Glochidion on continents (such as parasitoid Hymenoptera) are not reported from south-eastern Polynesia. This indicates that the insular community represents a subset of those taxa from the continental community, consistent with the well-established Pacific diversity gradient. Main conclusions These findings indicate that niche conservatism can play an important role in the assembly of phytophagous insect communities on oceanic islands, despite the constraints that specialization might be expected to pose on successful establishment. As a result of this niche conservatism, these communities may represent less species-rich versions of continental tropical communities rather than non-analogue insular ecosystems.}, keywords = {adaptive radiation, Austral Islands, Caloptilia, community assembly, Cook Islands, Diphtheroptila, Dudua, Epicephala, French Polynesia, Gracillariidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Marquesas, Moorea, niche conservatism, oceanic islands, Pacific Insects, Phyllantheae, phytophagous insects, Society Islands, south-eastern Polynesia, TORTRICIDAE, Tritopterna}, isbn = {1365-2699}, author = {Hembry, David H. and Okamoto, Tomoko and McCormack, Gerald and Gillespie, Rosemary G.} } @book {97, title = {Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island, their biogeography and ecology}, series = {Series Entomologica}, volume = {13}, year = {1977}, pages = {291}, publisher = {W. Junk}, organization = {W. Junk}, address = {The Hague}, keywords = {Blastobasidae, Carposinidae, Crambidae, distribution, Elachistidae, Epermeniidae, Gelechiidae, Glyphipterygidae, Gracillariidae, Lecithoceridae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lyonetiidae, Momphidae, Norfolk Island, Oecophoridae, Pacific Insects, Pterophoridae, Pyralidae, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Yponomeutidae}, author = {Holloway, J.D.} } @article {15, title = {Microlepidoptera from Rennell and Bellona Islands}, journal = {The Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon IslandsThe Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands}, volume = {2}, number = {19}, year = {1957}, note = {Cryptophlebia pallifimbriana, C. iridosema. Of 850 specimens, 660 were identified as 67 species or subspecies (24 new).}, pages = {87-112}, abstract = {This paper is based upon material collected by my wife and myself during a visit to the Solomon Islands from September 1953 to January 1954. We were on Rennell Island in October and November, and Bellona Island for two days at the end of November. An account of our expedition and a list of collecting stations appeared earlier in this series (Vol I: 43-57). While in the Solomons we also collected on Guadalcanal, Ysabel, Tulagi, the Russell Islands, and on Ontong Java Atoll, and certain of this material is referred to in the present paper when relevan to the fuana of Rennell and Bellona.}, keywords = {Acroclita, Adoxophyes, Allohermenias, Argyroploce, Bactra, Carposinidae, Chlidanotinae, Cosmopterigidae, Cryptophlebia, description, distribution, Eleuthodema, Epicephala, Erechthias, Eucosma, Gelechiidae, Gracillariidae, Heliodinidae, Herpystis, Icelita, immidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lobesia, Olethreutinae, Opostegidae, Pacific Insects, Periphoeba, Pseudoclita, Solomon Islands, Spilonota, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Tortricinae, Trymalitis, Yponomeutidae}, author = {Bradley, J. D.} }