Scirpophaga nivella

Distribution. Indian records: Throughout India (Hampson 1896 b), North India (Rose & Dhillon 1980 c), Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Arora 2000), India (Chen & Wu 2014), Andaman Islands (Lewvanich 1981), Central Himalaya (Sanyal et al. 2018), Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu (Singh et al. 2019 d), Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Delhi (Komal et al. 2021), Thar Desert (Chandra et al. 2021). Global records: Vietnam (Tonkin) (de Joannis 1930), Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, West Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor, Aru Islands, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji (Lewvanich 1981), Japan (Inoue 1982), widely distributed throughout the old world tropics from India eastward to Fiji, in SE Asia from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan, Kalimatan, Philippines lowland (Robinson et al. 1994), China (Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan), Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, West Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor, Aru Island, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji (Chen & Wu 2014).

Sumber: A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera)

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.