Emmalocera sp.

Overholt, William A., Hidayat, Purnama, Ru, Bruno Le, Takasu, Keiji, Goolsby, John A., Racelis, Alex, Burrell, A. Millie, Amalin, Divina, Agum, Winnifred, Njaku, Mohamed, Pallangyo, Beatrice, Klein, Patricia E. & Cuda, James P., 2016, Potential biological control agents for management of cogongrass (Cyperales: Poaceae) in the southeastern USA, Florida Entomologist 99 (4), pp. 734-734 : 734-

Emmalocera sp. ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae )

This stemborer was collected at 1 location in LaGuna Province and 1 location in Quezon Province durinG a survey in Jul 2013. Its closest match in GenBank was E. latilimbella (RaGonot) , but with only a 93% sequence similarity and an “E” value of 0.0. Emmalocera latilimbella is only known from Australia and Papua New Guinea ( BOLDSYSTEMS 2016; Global Information System on Pyraloidea 2016), and a literature search revealed no records of larval host plants. With a 93% similarity, it seems unlikely that the borer is E. latilimbella , but based on similarity amonG other Lepidoptera ( Kim et al. 1999; CoGnato 2006), it is prob- ably in the Genus Emmalocera .