Ephysteris promptella

Ephysteris promptella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Ephysteris
Species:
E. promptella
Binomial name
Ephysteris promptella
(Staudinger, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia promptella Staudinger, 1859
  • Epithectis petiginella Mann, 1867
  • Ephysteris petiginella
  • Ephysteris promptella australiae Povolny 1977
  • Aristotelia cacomicra Walsingham 1907
  • Ephysteris chersaea Meyrick, 1908
  • ?Epiphthora crystallista Meyrick, 1911
  • Phthorimaea dispensata Meyrick 1921
  • Ephysteris oschophora Meyrick 1910
  • Metzneria xanthorhabda Gozmany 1951
  • Doryphora parvula Staudinger, 1879
  • Phthorimaea fanatica Meyrick, 1921
  • Ephysteris despectella Walker, 1863

Ephysteris promptella, the ratoon shootborer, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is a pantropical species, found in the warmer parts of the Old World tropics to Australia. It is widely distributed in southern Europe (ranging to Slovakia in the north).

The wingspan is 8–10 mm. Adults are greyish brown.

The larvae feed on Andropogon, Oryza, Panicum, Saccharum officinarum, Sorghum, Stipa, Triticum and Zea mays. They bore the shoots of their host plant. Full-grown larvae reach a length of about 5 mm.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. ↑ lepiforum.de
  4. ↑ "Australian Insects". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
  5. ↑ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
  6. ↑ "Ephysteris promptella". lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au. Archived from the original on 2010-08-29.