Rice moth
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
{{Distinguish|Rice worm moth}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Corcyra cephalonica female.jpg
| image2 = Corcyra cephalonica.jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Pyralidae
| genus = Corcyra
| species = C. cephalonica
| binomial = Corcyra cephalonica
| binomial_authority = (Stainton, 1866)
| synonyms =
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}}
The rice moth (Corcyra cephalonica) is a moth of the family Pyralidae. This small moth can become a significant pest. Its caterpillars feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds, including cereals (e.g. rice). Other recordedGrabe (1942) foods are flour and dried fruits.
Synonyms
Other scientific names, now invalid, for the rice moth are:See references in Savela (2009)
- Anerastia lineata Legrand, 1965
- Corcyra translineella Hampson, 1901
- Melissoblaptes cephalonica Stainton, 1866
- Melissoblaptes oeconomellus Mann, 1872
- Tineopsis theobromae Dyar, 1913
When describing his T. theobromae in 1913, Dyar established the genus Tineopsis. He overlooked, however, that this had already been proposed by Cajetan Freiherr von Felder for a (presumed) arctiid moth in 1861. Nonwithstanding that Felder's species is somewhat dubious and has not been identified in recent lists, Dyar's Tineopsis is a junior homonym and thus invalid in any case.
The species of the genus Corcyra have recently been considered members of the genus Aphomia by some researchers.
See also
Footnotes
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{{Cite report
| title = Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
| date = 2016
| last1 = Pohl | first1 = Greg
| last2 = Patterson | first2 = Bob
| last3 = Pelham | first3 = Jonathan
| doi = 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287| doi-access = free
}}
{{Cite book
| last1 = Leraut| first1 = Patrice
| year = 2014
| title = Moths of Europe Volume 4: Pyralids 2
| ISBN = 978-2-913688-22-3
| publisher = NAP Editions
}}
}}
References
- {{aut|Grabe, Albert}} (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105–109 [in German]. [http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ZOEV_27_0105-0109.pdf PDF fulltext]
- {{aut|Savela, Markku}} (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/galleriinae/corcyra/index.html Corcyra]. Version of 2009-APR-07. Retrieved 2010-APR-10.
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Category:Moths described in 1866
Category:Agricultural pest insects
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