Scirpophaga incertulas ( Walker, 1863a: 143 ) (Chilo)

Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5197 (1), pp. 1-423 : 239

517. Scirpophaga incertulas ( Walker, 1863a: 143) (Chilo)

Type locality: [ Malaysia] Sarawak, Borneo

= Schoenobius punctellus Zeller, 1863: 4

Type locality: Indonesia, Java . Calcutta [Kolkata, India]

= Schoenobius minutellus Zeller, 1863: 5 , 6

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Catagela admotella Walker, 1863a: 192

Type locality: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]

= Tipanaea bipunctifera Walker, 1863b: 523

Type locality: Malaysia, Sarawak

= Chilo gratiosellus Walker, 1864b: 967

Type locality: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]

= Chilo incertellus (misspell.) ( Walker 1864b: 1069)

= Schoenobius bipunctifer (misspell.) ( Strand 1918b: 262)

= Schoenobius bipunctifer ab. quadripunctellifera Strand, 1918b: 263

Type locality: Formosa [Taiwan], Kankan

Distribution. Indian records: Poona, Bombay ( Swinhoe 1885), throughout India ( Hampson 1896b), Tripura, Nagaland, West Bengal (Calcutta), Maharashtra (Pune) ( Mandal & Ghosh 1991), Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal ( Arora 2000), West Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Nicobar Island ( Rao & Sivaperuman 2020), Delhi ( Komal et al. 2021). Global records: China, Formosa, Ceylon, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Rangoon ( Hampson 1896b), Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh ( Arora 2000), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), widely distributed throughout the old world tropics from Afghanistan eastward to Japan and central Indonesia, in SE Asia from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan, Kalimantan, Philippines, lowland ( Robinson et al.1994), China (Beijing, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan), Japan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, West Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sumba, Sulawesi, Philippines ( Chen & Wu 2014), Cambodia ( Singh et al. 2019d).