Diatraea crambidoides
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| image = Diatraea crambidoides larva.jpg
| image_alt = A shiny caterpillar with many black dots and a dark brown head
| image_caption = Larva
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| taxon = Diatraea crambidoides
| authority = (Grote, 1880){{cite web |last=Nuss |first=M. |display-authors=etal |date=2003–2017 |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=November 28, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5476 |title=800835 – 5476 – Diatraea crambidoides – Southern Cornstalk Borer Moth – (Grote, 1880) |publisher=Mississippi State University |website=Moth Photographers Group |accessdate=November 28, 2017}}
| synonyms =
- Chilo crambidoides Grote, 1880
- Diatraea tripsacicola Dyar, 1921
- Diatraea zeacolella Dyar, 1911
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Diatraea crambidoides, the southern cornstalk borer moth, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America,{{cite web|author=Hollenbeck, Jeff |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/111185 |title=Species Diatraea crambidoides - Southern Cornstalk Borer - Hodges#5476 |website=Bug Guide |date=May 19, 2007 |accessdate=November 28, 2017}} from Alabama and northern Florida to Ohio and Maryland. Its wingspan is 15–40 mm.
The larvae feed on Zea mays, Tripsacum dactyloides and Sorghum species.{{cite web|url=http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=170190 |title=Southern Corn Stalk Borer, Diatraea crambidoides (Grote), Feeding Damage on Eastern Gamagrass in Oklahoma |publisher=Ars.usda.gov |accessdate=October 10, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG271/corn_sorghum/southern_cornstalk_borer.html |title=Extension Integrated Pest Management Program - Southern Cornstalk Borer |publisher=Ipm.ncsu.edu |accessdate=October 10, 2011}}