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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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