Scirpophaga nivella (Fabricius, 1794)

Chen, Fu-Qiang & Wu, Chun-Sheng, 2014, Taxonomic review of the subfamily Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from China, Zoological Systematics 39 (2), pp. 163-208 : 170

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scientific name	Scirpophaga nivella (Fabricius, 1794)
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Scirpophaga nivella (Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL ( Figs 15 View Figs 13–20 , 23, 31)

Tinea nivella Fabricius, 1794 . Ent. Syst. Emendata Aucta. 3(2): 296. Type locality: India.

Scirpophaga chrysorrhoa Zeller, 1863 View in CoL . Chilonidarum Crambidarum Genera Species: 1.

Scirpophaga auriflua Zeller, 1863 View in CoL . Chilonidarum Crambidarum Genera Species: 2.

Scirpophaga brunnescens Moore, 1888 View in CoL . In: Hewitson & Moore, Descr. New Indian Lepid. Insects Colln late Mr W.S. Atkinson, 3: 225.

Schoenobius celidias Meyrick, 1894 View in CoL . Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894: 475.

Scirpophaga euclastalis Strand, 1918 View in CoL . Stettin. Ent. Ztg, 79: 262.

Tryporyza nivella: Wang, 1980 . Economic Insect Fauna of China, 21: 63.

Scirpophaga nivella: Lewvanich, 1981 View in CoL . Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), 42: 211.

Description. Body ochreous. Length of labial palpi about 1.2 times the diameter of compound eyes. Male with forewing ochreous white, sometimes a fuscous spot present at the lower angle of cell; hindwing white. Female with both wings ochreous white and anal tuft ochreous yellow. In male genitalia, subteguminal process with sinuous margin; aedeagus slightly swollen in apical 1/4, one slender and two long-based cornuti present. In female genitalia, antrum with a separated sclerotized tip; ductus bursae with the section between corpus bursae and ductus seminalis annulated and broader in diameter than the section between ostium bursae and ductus seminalis.

Distribution. China (Henan, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Guangxi, Yunnan); India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, West Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor, Aru Island, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Crambidae
Genus	Scirpophaga