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KEY TO SELECTED PYRALOIDEA (LEPIDOPTERA) | ||
LARVAE INTERCEPTED AT U. S. PORTS OF ENTRY | ||
Couplet 31 | ||
| Body with pinkish middorsal stripe and two lateral stripes on each side (Fig. 67); setal pinacula concolorous with body ...............................................................................................................................Chilo suppressalis (Walker) Distribution: Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia to India, Oceania; adventive in Hawaii Hosts: 2006: Cymbopogon citratus, Cymbopogon flexuosus, reed, Phragmites sp., Phragmites australis, Saccharum sp., Saccharum officanarum pre-1998: cabbage, corn, eggplant, millet, rice straw, sugarcane, sorghum, tomato, and wheat, many others Note: early instars with crochets in an incomplete circle on specimens on reed from China see Bleszynski 1970; Meijermann & Ulenberg 1996; Whittle & Ferguson 1988 |  | |
| Body with or without lateral stripes, but without pinkish middorsal stripe; setal pinacula concolorous with body (winter form) or darkly pigmented (summer form) .....................................................................................................................................................Diatraea spp. Distribution: tropical Western Hemisphere including southern U.S. Hosts: 2006: Cymbopogon citratus, Cyperus papyrus, Musa sp., Saccharum officinarum, Spartina alterniflora, Tripsacum dactyloides, Zea mays pre-1998: rice, sorghum Note: Some species of Chilo will key to Diatraea based on color pattern (Passoa, pers. comm.), but Diatraea does not occur in the Old World; see Box 1931; Dyar & Heinrich 1927; Riley & Solis 2005; Solis 2004 | ||
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