Chilo suppressalis
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The Asiatic Rice Borer (Chilo suppressalis) is a moth
of the Crambidae
family. It is a widespread species, known from India
, China
, eastern Asia
, Japan
, Taiwan
, Malaysia to the Pacific.
The wingspan
is 25 mm. Females are somewhat larger than the males. Adults have pale yellow forewings, each with one or more dark spots. The hindwings are white.
The larvae feed on Chaetochloa verticellata, Echinochloa crusgalli cruspavonis, Echinochloa stagnina
, Eleusine indica
, Panicum barbinode, Paspalum conjugatum and rice. They bore the stems of their host plant. The larvae are yellow, with five dim longitudinal lines. It can grow to a length of about 25 mm. It is a serious pest of rice and it is largely responsible for the great reduction in the rice growing acreage in Hawaii.
Pupation takes place in a stem of the food plant.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Crambidae
Crambidae
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of Lepidoptera . They are quite variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae taking up closely folded postures on grass-stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in...
family. It is a widespread species, known from India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, China
China
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, eastern Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Malaysia to the Pacific.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 25 mm. Females are somewhat larger than the males. Adults have pale yellow forewings, each with one or more dark spots. The hindwings are white.
The larvae feed on Chaetochloa verticellata, Echinochloa crusgalli cruspavonis, Echinochloa stagnina
Echinochloa stagnina
Echinochloa stagnina is a species of Echinochloa widespread in tropical Africa and Asia, with an invasive status in many Pacific islands....
, Eleusine indica
Eleusine indica
Eleusine indica is an invasive species in the grass family Poaceae. It is a small annual weed distributed throughout the warmer areas of the world to about 50 degrees latitude...
, Panicum barbinode, Paspalum conjugatum and rice. They bore the stems of their host plant. The larvae are yellow, with five dim longitudinal lines. It can grow to a length of about 25 mm. It is a serious pest of rice and it is largely responsible for the great reduction in the rice growing acreage in Hawaii.
Pupation takes place in a stem of the food plant.