1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: (Walker) (: : Amphipyrinae)

Common Name Asiatic pink stem borer Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/136262

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Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment https://www.awe.gov.au/ Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia https://dpird.wa.gov.au/ Plant Health Australia https://www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/ Museums Victoria https://museumsvictoria.com.au/ 2. Species Information

2.1. Details Specimen Contact: NAQS/AQIS Mareeba - Author: Walker, K. Citation: Walker, K. (2005) Asiatic pink stem borer (Sesamia inferens)Updated on 10/21/2011 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/136262

2.3. Facets Status: Exotic Regulated Pest - absent from Australia Group: Commodity Overview: Field Crops and Pastures, Horticulture Commodity Type: Grains, Fresh Stems, Grasses, Sugarcane Distribution: South and South-East Asia, Australasian - Oceanian

2.4. Other Names Gramineous stem borer (Pakistan) Leucania inferens Walker Leucania proscripta Walker Nonagria gracilis Butler Nonagria innocens Butler Pink borer (Japan) Pink rice borer Pink rice stem borer (Thailand) Pink stem borer Pink stem borer Purple borer (Indonesia) Purple stem borer Purplish stem borer (Japan) Sesamia albiciliata Snellen Sesamia tranquilaris Butler

2.5. Diagnostic Notes

INCURSION MANAGEMENT PLANS from BSES

Chilo incursion management planDiatraea incursion management planEldana incursion management planEoreuma loftini incursion management planGeneric incursion management planScirpophaga incursion management planSesamia incursion management planSugarcane Smut - A contingency plan for the Australian sugar industry

Moderately robust with pale yellow brown body. The head and thorax have a thick brown hair tuft, the eyes are smooth. The antennae are filiform (long and thin) in the female and pectinate (feather-like) in the male. The wingspan ranges from 28 mm in the male to 35 mm in the female The forewings are fawn to light brown with some scattered dark brown spots throughout, with a diffusely darker central streak (faint purplish red), and darker brown at the margin, grading away basad. The hindwings are almost pure creamy white with light yellow scales along major veins. The costal process of the valve in the male genitalia is diagnostically curved and serrate, the harpe relatively weak, apically squared. Genitalia similar to S. grisescens Warren, but S. inferens is smaller in size and body paler. The species is also quite distinct from S. uniformis Dudgeon (India, China), a species with darker forewings and a costal flange rather than a long spine in the male genitalia.

2.6. References Allsopp, PG & Sallam, MS (2001) BSS249 Preparedness for borer incursion. Sesamia incursion management plan Version 1. Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations Publication, Project report PR01002 CABI (2004) CABI Crop Protection Compendium, 2004 Edition. © CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 2004." Kapur AP, 1967. of the rice stem borers. In: The Major Pests of the Rice Plant. Maryland, USA: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-43. Miyata, A. (1983). Handbook of the Moth Ecology - Moths as an Indicator of the Environment 2 vols in Japanese; introductory pamphlet in English. Isahaya: Showado. Williams, J.R. (1953). The larvae and pupae of some important Lepidoptera. Bull ent. Res., 43: 691-701. Zhu, P.-C., Kong, F.-L., and Wang, Z.-H. 1987b. Sex pheromone components of purple stem borer Sesamia inferens (Walker). J. Chem. Ecol. 13:983-989.

2.7. Web Links Sesamia incursion management plan: http://www.bses.org.au/IncuManaPlan/PR01002.pdf The Moths of Borneo: Subfamily : Sesamia inferens Walker: http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part- 12/amphipyrinae/amphipyrinae_10_1.php 3. Diagnostic Images

Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Rice stem. Rice stem. Dorsal View - Adult: Amy Carmichael Forewing Closeup Dorsal View: Amy Queensland University of Technology Carmichael Queensland University of Technology

Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Rice stem. Rice stem. Forewing Closeup Ventral View: Amy Head Dorsal View: Amy Carmichael Carmichael Queensland University of Queensland University of Technology Technology

Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Rice stem. Rice stem. Head Lateral View: Amy Carmichael Hindwing Closeup Dorsal View: Amy Queensland University of Technology Carmichael Queensland University of Technology Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Bubia, PNG, Oct.1968, C.S. Li, reared from Rice stem. Rice stem. Hindwing Closeup Ventral View: Amy Ventral View: Amy Carmichael Queensland Carmichael Queensland University of University of Technology Technology

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