''Chilo'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
s of the family
Crambidae
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...
. Some of these moths are called borers.
Description
The proboscis is absent. Palpi porrect (extended forward), clothes with rough hair, and extending from two and a half to three lengths of the 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. Forewings with the apex rectangular in male, typically acute and produced in female. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 4 and 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. Hindwings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Veins 4 and 5 from angle and veins 6 and 7 from upper angle.
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Species
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Chilo agamemnon
''Chilo agamemnon'' is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1962. It is found in Spain, Egypt, Israel, Sudan and Uganda.
The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is dull ye ...
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Błeszyński, 1962
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Chilo aleniella''
(Strand, 1913)
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Chilo argyrogramma
''Chilo argyrogramma'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Kenya.
References
Endemic moths of Kenya
Chiloini
Moths described in 1919
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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Hampson, 1919
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Chilo argyropasta''
(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo auricilius''
Dudgeon, 1905
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Chilo bandra
''Chilo bandra'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by A. P. Kapur in 1950. It is found in India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, t ...
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(Kapur, 1950)
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Chilo batri
''Chilo batri'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1928. It is found in India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest cou ...
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(T. B. Fletcher, 1928)
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Chilo ceylonica
''Chilo ceylonica'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை ...
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Hampson, 1896
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Chilo chiriquitensis
''Chilo chiriquitensis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1877. It is found in Mexico, Panama and Guatemala.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1877
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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(Zeller, 1877)
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Chilo christophi
''Chilo christophi'' is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Romania, the southern Ural region, Armenia, Djarkent, Issyk-Kul, Thian-Shan, Kuldja, Amur, Ussuri, northern China and ...
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Błeszyński, 1965
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Chilo cinnamomellus
''Chilo cinnamomellus'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1875 and is found in Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the south ...
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Berg, 1875
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Chilo costifusalis''
(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo crypsimetalla
''Chilo crypsimetalla'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1911. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly ...
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(Turner, 1911)
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Chilo dailingensis''
Wang & Sung, 1981
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Chilo demotellus''
Walker, 1866
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Chilo diffusilinea
''Chilo diffusilinea'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Joseph de Joannis in 1927. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1927
Moths of Sub-Saharan Afri ...
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(de Joannis, 1927)
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Chilo erianthalis''
Capps, 1963
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Chilo flavirufalis''
(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo heracleus''
Zeller, 1877
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Chilo ikri''
(T. B. Fletcher, 1928)
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Chilo incerta''
(Sjöstedt, 1926)
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Chilo infuscatellus''
Snellen, 1890
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Chilo ingloriellus''
Möschler, 1882
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Chilo kanra''
(T. B. Fletcher, 1928)
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Chilo leucealis''
(Marion, 1957)
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Chilo ingulatellus''
Wang & Sung, 1981
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Chilo louisiadalis''
(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo luniferalis''
Hampson, 1896
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Chilo luteellus
''Chilo luteellus'' is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Victor Motschulsky in 1866. It is found in France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Algeria, Egypt, Transcaspia, Syria, Iran, China, Korea, J ...
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(Motschulsky 1866)
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Chilo mercatorius
''Chilo mercatorius'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1970
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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Błeszyński, 1970
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Chilo mesoplagalis
''Chilo mesoplagalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East ...
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(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo niponella
''Chilo niponella'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1788. It is found in Japan and the Russian Far East.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1788
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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(Thunberg, 1788)
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Chilo orichalcociliella''
(Strand, 1911)
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Chilo panici''
Wang & Sung, 1981
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Chilo partellus
''Chilo partellus'', the spotted stalk borer or spotted stem borer, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1885. It is found in India, Pakistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, ...
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(Swinhoe, 1885)
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Chilo perfusalis''
(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo phragmitella''
(Hübner, 1805)
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Chilo plejadellus
''Chilo plejadellus'', the rice stalk borer moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae described by Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken in 1821. It is found in North America, including Illinois, Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Louisia ...
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Zincken, 1821
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Chilo polychrysus
''Chilo polychrysus'', the dark-headed striped borer, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in India, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia.
The wingspan is 16–25 mm. The win ...
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(Meyrick, 1932)
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Chilo prophylactes''
Meyrick, 1934
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Chilo psammathis
''Chilo psammathis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1919
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo pulverata''
(Wileman & South, 1917)
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Chilo pulverosellus
''Chilo pulverosellus'' is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1895. It is found across southern Europe, France, as well as in the Levant region, and in the region of Transcaspia.
The forewing length ...
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Ragonot 1895
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Chilo quirimbellus
''Chilo quirimbellus'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. It is found in Angola.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1970
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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Błeszyński, 1970
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Chilo recalvus
''Chilo recalvus'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1876. It is found in South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded ...
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(Wallengren, 1876)
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Chilo sacchariphagus''
(Bojer et al., 1856)
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Chilo spatiosellus''
Möschler, 1882
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Chilo subbivittalis
''Chilo subbivittalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Max Gaede in 1917. It is found in Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in ...
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(Gaede, 1917)
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Chilo suppressalis''
(Walker, 1860)
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Chilo tamsi''
Kapur, 1950
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Chilo terrenellus
''Chilo terrenellus'', the sugarcane borer, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1900 and is found in Papua New Guinea and islands in the Torres Strait.
The larvae feed on sugarcane
Su ...
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Pagenstecher, 1900
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Chilo thyrsis''
Błeszyński, 1963
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Chilo tumidicostalis
''Chilo tumidicostalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in India (Bengal, Assam) and Nepal.
References
Chiloini
Moths described in 1919
{{Chiloini-stub ...
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(Hampson, 1919)
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Chilo vergilius
''Chilo vergilius'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1970. It is found in India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest co ...
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Błeszyński, 1970
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Chilo yichunensis
''Chilo yichunensis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Wang and Sung in 1981. It is found in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous ...
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Wang & Sung, 1981
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Chilo zacconius''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Chilo zizaniae
''Chilo zizaniae'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Wang and Sung in 1981. It is found in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous co ...
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Wang & Sung, 1981
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Chilo zoriandellus''
Błeszyński, 1970
Status unclear
* ''Chilo decrepitellus''
Zincken, 1821 omen oblitum described from Germany
Former species
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Chilo williami
''Coniesta williami'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Joseph de Joannis in 1927. It is found in Mozambique and Namibia.
References
Haimbachiini
Moths described in 1927
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Lepidoptera o ...
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(de Joannis, 1927)
References
External links
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''Chilo'' at Fauna Europaea
Chiloini
Crambidae genera
{{Chiloini-stub