Chilo 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-

Chilo sp. ( Lepidoptera : Crambidae )

DurinG a survey in the Philippines in Mar 2015, crambid larvae were found borinG in the stems of coGonGrass near Binan, LaGuna Province, causinG damaGe similar to that described above for Acrapex species. Based on the CO1 gene,the closest species in GenBank was Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) , a notorious pest of corn and sorghum in southern Asia and East and southern Africa ( Kfir et al. 2002; Sharma et al. 2007) that is not known to occur in the Philippines. However, the sequence similarity was only 92% (E value = 0.0), suGGestinG that the insect was not C. partellus . This was confirmed by morpholoGical identification as a Chilo sp. , but taxonomi- cally distinct from C. partellus . A collection of 30 larvae was sent to the Fort Pierce quarantine facility, where they were placed on cut stems of co- GonGrass. AlthouGh all the larvae appeared to be mature when collected, several did not pupate until late May and early Jun, suGGestinG that they may have been in aestivation at the time of collection, which was durinG the dry season in Luzon. Two individuals reached the adult stage in mid- Jun but efforts to establish a colony were unsuccessful.

EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA