“…Several SDM methods are available, varying in their abilities to summarize the relationships between environmental factors and the spatial arrangements of species (Aragon et al, 2013;Naimi & Araújo, 2016). In the last decade, SDMs have been successfully employed for modelling potential distributions of insect pests, for example fruit flies (De Meyer et al, 2010;Li, Wei, Ma, & Zhang, 2009), stinkbug (Dzerefos, Erasmus, Witkowski, & Guo, 2015;Solhjouy-Fard, Sarafrazi, Moeini, & Ahadiyat, 2013), beetles (Bidinger, Lötters, Rödder, & Veith, 2012;Escalante et al, 2009), bees (Gonzalez, Koch, & Griswold, 2010;Yasemi, Sarafrazi, & Shojaii, 2016), aphids (Wang, Huang, Jiang, & Qiao, 2010), butterflies and moths (Hernandez-Baz, Romo, Gonzalez, Hernandez, & Pastrana, 2016;Nacambo et al, 2014;Newbold, Reader, Zalat, & El-Gabbas, 2009). In this study, we used maximum entropy modelling approach (Maxent) to assess the potential establishment risk and spatial distribution of two important rice stem borers, C. suppressalis and Sesamia cretica Lederer in paddy fields.…”