| Scirpophaga | |
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| Scirpophaga innotata | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Schoenobiinae |
| Genus: | Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832 [1] |
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Scirpophaga is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1832. Asian species include significant rice stemborer pests.
The genus Scirpophaga was first introduced by Treitschke in 1832 as a monotypic genus; including as single species Scirpophaga phantasmatella (which he misspelled as S. phantasmella, and which is now known as S. praelata). [2]
During most of history this genus has been completely confused, with most specimens being wrongly identified and most taxa being based on a type series containing numerous species. Males and females of the same species were often recognised as two independent species. [2] Almost two centuries after the first species was described, in 1960 the Australian entomologist Ian Francis Bell Common was the first to examine the genitalia (for centuries the standard method by which one determines species in Lepidoptera) of the Australian specimens in this group, recombining and splitting the then defined genera into a number of new genera. He created the new genus Tryporyza, in which he incorporated two species: Chilo incertulas and Tipanaea innotata [3] (of which DNA research in 2019 has shown should be synonymised with Scirpophaga nivella ). [4] In 1980 P. Wang also classified Scirpophaga nivella within the genus Tryporyza, [5] only to have Angoon Lewvanich, after an exhaustive study of the genitals of over 6000 specimens from throughout the range of the group, to retire the genus Tryporyza as a synonym of Scirpophaga in the following year (1981). [2]
Treitschke gives as etymology for the generic epithet the word Scirpus , a type of plant commonly known as a "rush", and the Ancient Greek word φαγεῖν (transliterated phageîn), which means "to eat". [2] [6]
Palpi porrect (extending forward) extending from once to twice the length of head, slightly hairy, and with downcurved third joint. Maxillary palp rather short and dilated with scales. A slight rounded frontal projection can be seen. Antennae of male minutely serrated, and ciliated. Patagia of male with spreading upturned hair. Tibia with outer spurs about half the length of inner. Abdomen long, where in female expanding at extremity and with very large anal tuft. Wings long and narrow. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell. Veins 4 and 5 from angle and vein 7 straight and well separated from veins 8 and 9. Veins 10 and 11 free, or vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12. Hindwings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle. [7]
Calamotropha is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Culladia is a grass moth genus of subfamily Crambinae, tribe Crambini. Some authors have assigned the synonymous taxon Nirmaladia to the snout moth family (Pyralidae), where all grass moths were once also included, but this seems to be in error.
Metasia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Niphopyralis is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae.
Scirpophaga incertulas, the yellow stem borer or rice yellow stem borer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Afghanistan, Nepal, north-eastern India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sumba, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Taiwan, China and Japan.
Schoenobiinae is a subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae. The subfamily was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1846.
Scirpophaga auristrigellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Guangxi, China, India and Bhutan.
Scirpophaga fusciflua is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Taiwan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Scirpophaga gotoi is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Angoon Lewvanich in 1981. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Jiangsu and Guangdong and in Japan.
Scirpophaga khasis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Angoon Lewvanich in 1981. It is found in Yunnan in China and in India.
Scirpophaga magnella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Joseph de Joannis in 1930. It is found in China, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Scirpophaga marginepunctellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Joseph de Joannis in 1927. It is found in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.
Scirpophaga nivella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in southern Asia from the Indian Subcontinent in the west to southern China in the east, south to New Guinea and Australia, including New Caledonia and Fiji. Some sources have affixed the common name "sugarcane top borer" to it, despite it not being found in sugarcane, because they are confused with the species Scirpophaga excerptalis, which is an actual borer in the tops of sugarcane. Another newer common name that has been invented for these moths is "white rice borer".
Scirpophaga ochritinctalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Scirpophaga subumbrosa is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.
Scirpophaga tongyaii is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Angoon Lewvanich in 1981. It is found in China, India, Myanmar and Thailand.
Scirpophaga virginia is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Schultze in 1908. It is found in China, Taiwan, Japan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, western Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines.
Scirpophaga whalleyi is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Angoon Lewvanich in 1981. It is found in China (Yunnan), India and Sri Lanka.
Scirpophaga xanthogastrella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Taiwan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
A stemborer is any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems. However the term most frequently refers among the Coleoptera to the larva of certain longhorn beetles such as Dorysthenes buqueti and those of the genus Oberea, and among the Lepidoptera to certain moths of the Crambidae, Castniidae, Gelechiidae, Nolidae, and Pyralidae families.
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