Screening of rice varieties against leaf folder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenee (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae)

First record of skipper genus Ochlodes scudder, 1872 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on rice, with a note on the taxonomy of Ochlodes sylvanus hyrcana (Christoph, 1893) stat. rev.

“…More than 50 species of skippers (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) are known to feed on rice worldwide, but no species in the genus Ochlodes are among them (Hideyuki Chiba, personal communication; Grist & Lever, 1969; Litsinger et al, 1994). The most commonly recorded rice skippers are Parnara guttata (Bremer & Grey, 1853), Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius, 1798), P. thrax (Hübner, 1821), P. conjuncta (Herrich‐Schäffer, 1869), Hylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773), Ancyloxypha numitor (Fabricius, 1793) and Panoquina ocola (Edwards, 1863) (Choi et al, 2005; Grist & Lever, 1969; Hendawy et al, 2022; Ishi & Hidaka, 1979; Litsinger et al, 1994; Matsumura, 1992; Parasappa, 2017; Patel et al, 2011; Smith, 1986; Smith & Robinson, 1983).…”