Chilo (moth)

Chilo
Chilo phragmitella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Crambinae
Genus: Chilo
Zincken, 1817[1]
Synonyms
  • Borer Guenée, 1862
  • Chilona Sodoffsky, 1837
  • Chilotraea Kapur, 1950
  • Diphryx Grote, 1881
  • Hypiesta Hampson, 1919
  • Nephalia Turner, 1911
  • Silveria Dyar, 1925

Chilo is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. Some of these moths are called borers.

Description

Proboscis absent. Palpi porrect, clothes with rough hair, and extending from two and a half to three length of head. Maxillary palp dilated with scales at extremity. Frons with a conical projection. Antennae minutely serrate and ciliated. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner. Fore wings with the apex rectangular in male, typically acute and produced in female. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 4,5 well separated at origin. Vein 7 straight and well separated from veins 8 and 9. Vein 10 free, whereas vein 11 curved and approximated to vein 12. Hind wings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Veins 4,5 from angle and veins 6,7 from upper angle.[2]

Species

Status unclear

Former species

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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