Elophila turbata
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| taxon = Elophila turbata
| authority = (Butler, 1881)
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|
- Paraponyx turbata Butler, 1881
- Leparodes floralis Leech, 1889
- Hydrocampa sultschana Ragonot, 1894
- Parthenodes sutschana Hampson, 1900
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Elophila turbata is a moth in the family Crambidae found in Africa and Asia. It was first described by the English entomologist Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881 from a specimen found in Yokohama, Japan.{{cite web |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=2014-07-15}}{{cite web |first1=J. |last1=De Prins |first2=W. |last2=De Prins |date=2017 |url=http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/ELOPTURB |title=Elophila turbata (Butler, 1881)> |website=Afromoths |accessdate=28 November 2020}}
Description
Adults have been recorded on wing from May to October in Japan.
The larvae feed on common duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza), floating fern (Salvinia natans), Trapa japonica and Lemna perpusilla.{{Cite web |url=http://astp.jst.go.jp/modules/search/DocumentDetail/0367-6285%2B%2540%2B1225-0171%2B%2540%2B_46_1_An%2BAquatic%2BMoths%252C%2BElophila%2Bturbata%2B%2528Butler%252C%2B1881%2529%2B%2528Lepidoptera%252C%2BCrambidae%252C%2BNymphulinae%2529%2Bin%2BKorea%252C%2Bwith%2BNew%2BHost%2BPlants_N%252FA |title=An Aquatic Moths, Elophila turbata (Butler, 1881) (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Nymphulinae) in Korea, with New Host Plants |access-date=2014-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725164100/http://astp.jst.go.jp/modules/search/DocumentDetail/0367-6285%2B%2540%2B1225-0171%2B%2540%2B_46_1_An%2BAquatic%2BMoths%252C%2BElophila%2Bturbata%2B%2528Butler%252C%2B1881%2529%2B%2528Lepidoptera%252C%2BCrambidae%252C%2BNymphulinae%2529%2Bin%2BKorea%252C%2Bwith%2BNew%2BHost%2BPlants_N%252FA |archive-date=2014-07-25 |url-status=dead }}{{aut|Yoshiyasu, Y.}} 1985: A systematic study of the Nymphulinae and the Musotiminae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Scientific Reports of the Kyoto Prefectural University Agriculture, Kyoto 37: 1–162. Abstract and full article: [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110000057822/en].
Predators and parasites
The tiny parasitoid godzilla wasp (Microgaster godzilla) dive in ponds to hunt aquatic larvae, laying their eggs inside the bodies of other insects. In the case of Elophila turbata the wasp hunt the older larvae living in cases near the water's surface. The wasp larvae hatch and eat their host from the inside out.{{cite magazine |last1=Buehler |first1=Jake |title=Godzilla wasps are water-loving terrors |magazine=New Scientist |issue=3309 |date=21 November 2020 |page=22}}
Distribution
'Elophila turbata is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima, Amami islands, the Ryukyus) and the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri).
References
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Category:Moths described in 1881
Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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