Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli, 1763)

Chen, Fuqiang, Song, Shimei & Wu, Chunsheng, 2006, A review of the genus Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832 in China (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Zootaxa 1236, pp. 1-22 : 6

1. Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli, 1763)

Figs. 9, 10

Phalaena praelata Scopoli, 1763 , Ent. carniolica, exhibens Ins. Carnioliae indigena: 198.

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.

Material examined

Dailing, Heilongjiang, 390m, 47.0 °N 129.0 °E, 1Ψ, 9.VII.1962, Bai Jiuwei (S355); Yabuluoni, Heilongjiang, 44.9 °N 128.6 °S, 1Ψ, 1.VIII.1942 (S284); Humeng, Neimenggu, 49.2 °N 129.7 °E, 1Ψ, 11.VII.1986, Chen Xiaowei (S296); Runan, Henan, 33.0 °N 114.3 °E, 1Ψ, VII.1981 (S242); Wangting, Jiangsu, 31.4 °N 120.4 °E, 1Ψ, 22.VIII.1958, Jin Cuixia (S314), 1♂,1Ψ 10.IX.1958, Jin Cuixia (S11, S346), 1Ψ, 12.IX.1958, Jin Cuixia (S281); Langyashan, Chuxian, Anhui, 32.2 °N 118.2 °E, 1Ψ, 28.VII.1972, Song Shimei (S291); Beijing, 39.9 °N 116.4 °E, 1♂, 12.VIII.1953, Zhang Yiran (S285); Chongan, Fujian, 27.7 °N 118.0 °E, 1♂, 240m, 20.IX.1960, Zuo Yong (S21); Jingdong, Yunnan, 1170m, 24.4 °N 100.8 °E, 1♂, 10.VI.1956, Zhaguliangyefu (S34), 1Ψ, 11.VI.1956, Zhaguliangyefu (S35), 1♂, 16.VI.1956, Zhaguliangyefu (S332), 1♂, 2.VII.1956, Zhaguliangyefu (S87); Tonghai, Yunnan, 24.0 °N 102.7 °E, 2Ψ, X.1963 (S308, S344); Cangyuan, Yunnan, 23.1 °N 99.2 °E, 1Ψ, 8.V.1980, Song Shimei (S567).

Distribution

China: Heilongjiang, Neimenggu, Henan, Hebei, Hebei Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Yunnan, Taiwan; Japan, Russia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Australia.