Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli, 1763) (Figs 13, 21, 29)

Phalaena praelata Scopoli, 1763 . Ent. Carniolica, Exhibens Ins. Carnioliae Indigena: 198. Type locality: Slovenia, Carniola.

Tinea dubia Rossi, 1790 . Fauna Etrusca, Sistens Ins., Quae provinciis Florentina Pisana Praesertim Collegit, 2: 208.

Phalaena Alucita latidactyla Hübner, 1790 . Beitr. Geschichte Schmetterlinge, 2: 27.

Tinea phantasmatella Hübner, 1796 . Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge, 8: 23.

Bombyx alba Hübner, 1828 . Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge, 3: 74.

Scirpophaga phantasmella Treitschke, 1832 . Die Schmetterlinge Europa, 9(1): 56.

Scirpophaga phantasmella var. grisea Guenée, 1845 . Annls Soc. Ent. Fr., (2)3: 334.

Scirpophaga cinerea Zeller, 1863 . Chilonidarum et Crambidarum Genera et Species: 1. Scirpophaga limnochares Common, 1960 . Aust. J. Zool., 8:318.

© Zoological Systematics, 39 (2): 163–208

Scirpophaga praelata: Lewvanich, 1981 . Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), 42: 205; Wang, 1980. Economic Insect Fauna of China, 21: 56.

Description. Body ochreous white. Length of labial palpi about 1.2 times the diameter of compound eyes. Both wings ochreous white, without fascia. Female with anal tuft grayish white. In male genitalia, subteguminal process with sinuous margin; aedeagus strongly swollen in apical 1/3, one slender and two stout cornuti present. In female genitalia, antrum a completely irregular plate; ductus bursae relatively short, slightly longer than the diameter of corpus bursae.

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Neimenggu, Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan); Russia, Japan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Australia.