Ephysteris promptella

Short description: Species of moth

Ephysteris promptella

Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Lepidoptera

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Gelechiidae

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Ephysteris

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E. promptella

Binomial name
Ephysteris promptella

(Staudinger, 1859)[1]

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).[2]

The wingspan is 8–10 mm.[3] Adults are greyish brown. Males are smaller and have black dots, while females have white flecks.[4]

The larvae feed on Andropogon, Oryza, Panicum, Saccharum officinarum, Sorghum, Stipa, Triticum and Zea mays. They bore the shoots of their host plant.[5] Full-grown larvae reach a length of about 5 mm.[6] Pupation takes place in a cocoon covered in frass which is made in debris on the soil surface.

## References

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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
5. ↑ "bladmineerders.nl". http://www.bladmineerders.nl/minersf/lepidopteramin/ephysteris/promptella/promptella.htm.
6. ↑ "Ephysteris promptella". http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/gele/prompt.html.

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