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Ostrinia furnacalis

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Ostrinia furnacalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae, the grass moths. It is known by the common name Asian corn borer. Its distribution extends from China to Australia. It is well known as an agricultural pest on several crops, especially corn. It is one of the worst corn pests in Japan and China. It has invaded corn crops in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It can be found in Java, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Micronesia. It is likely the worst pest insect on corn in the western Pacific region of Asia, and one of the worst pests overall, second only to maize downy mildew. This moth is a close relative of the European corn borer (O. nubilalis).
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1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0