Elophila turbata Butler
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Acentropinae
- Genus: Elophila
- Distribution: Kalimantan Selatan, China (E), Taiwan, Korea, Siberia (SE), Japan.
- Habitat: Aquatic larvae; lowland lakes & ponds.
- Wing Length: 7mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Parapoynx turbata Butler, 1881: 586 is from Japan (Yokohama). TS of Cyrtogramme Yoshiyasu 1985b.
Comb n. to Elophila Hübner, 1822 (comb. n. Shaffer et al., 1996).
Description
A fulvous brown and white sp. with a paler median band accros both wings. Close examination of the patterning should distinguish this from Elophila difflualis. It can also be confused with the smaller Elophila melagynalis Agassiz, 1978 but that has no yellow discal spots. Reported from S.E. Borneo in Meyrick (1894a: 471). Jin (2008) re-describes the morphological characters of adult and immature stages based on Korean material. Biological characters of this sp. including host plants and photographs of adult, genitalia and immature stages are provided. Li et al. (2009: 173-174; pl. X, fig. 144; pl. XLIII, fig. 144; pl. LXXXII, fig. 144.) do the same.
Life History
May cause some minor damage to padi rice. Food plants: Oryza sativa (rice) (Poaceae); Marsilia quadrifolia (Pteridophyta, Marsiliacea); Azola imbricata, Salvina natans (Pteridophyta, Salviniacea); Lemna paucicostata, L. perpusilla, Spirodela polyrhiza, Pistia stratiodes (Araceae); Eichornia crassipes (water hyacinth); Monochoria vaginalis (Pontederiaceae); Hydrocharis asioatica (Hydrocharitaceae); (Jin, 2008; Li et al., 2009).
References
- Butler, A. G. (1881) Descriptions of new genera and species of heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. Pyrales and Micros. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.; 579-600.
- Shaffer, M., & Nielsen, E.S. & Horak, M., (1996) Pyraloidea (In Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangji (Eds.) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia: 164 - 199, CSIRO, Australia.
- Jin, J. H. (2008) An Aquatic Moth, Elophila turbata (Butler, 1881) (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Nymphulinae) in Korea, with New Host Plants. Korean J. Appl. Entom. 46 (1) 13-18.
- Li, H.H., Ren, Y.D., Zhang, D.D., Du, X.C., Li, W.C., & Ping Y. (2009) Insect Fauna of Henan, Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea. Science Press, Beijing, 440 pp.
- Chen, F. -Q, Wu, C -S. & Xue, D. -Y. (2010) A review of the genus Elophila Hübner, 1822 in China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Acentropinae). Aquatic Insects 32 (1): 35-60.
- Yoshiyasu, Y. (1985b). A systematic study of the Nymphulinae and the Musotiminae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Scient. Rep. Kyoto prefec. Univ. 37: 1-162.
- Meyrick, E. (1894a) On Pyralidina from the Malay Archipelago. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.: 455-480.