Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832

Chen, Fuqiang, Song, Shimei & Wu, Chunsheng, 2006, A review of the genus Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832 in China (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Zootaxa 1236, pp. 1-22 : 2-3

Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832

Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832 , Die Schmetterlinge von Europa 9 (1): 55. Apurima Walker, 1863, List specimens lepid. In. colln Br. Mus., 28: 194; Hampson, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.: 912.

Tryporyza Common 1960, Aust. J. Zool. 8:339; Lewvanich, 1981, Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History (Entomology), 42: 196.

Type species: Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli, 1763)

Diagnosis

Male genitalia: Uncus and gnathos simple, without armature. Tegumen with dorsal sclerotized thickening rectangular, X­shaped, or triangular. Subteguminal process speciesspecific in shape, plate­like, spine­like, lobe­like, or tubercle­like. Valva simple, more­orless rectangular, with few differences. Juxta simple, plate­like. Coremata present. Saccus usually rounded. Manica lined with minute spines, some species with two groups of spines. Aedeagus usually elongate, often with variously shaped cornuti, mostly spine­like. Female genitalia: Ostium bursae usually broad, lined with minute spines; ductus bursae sclerotized in some species; corpus bursae more­or­less rounded, often densely lined with minute spines.