- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths
- ›Pyralid Snout Moths
- ›Galleriinae
- ›Tirathabini
- ›Stenachroia
Stenachroia elongella
Stenachroia elongella, the sorghum earhead worm or cob borer, is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is the only species in the genus Stenachroia. The species was first described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
During 1977 and 1978, the species was recorded as a major pest of maize cobs, damaging mature grains, in the Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, India.
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Stenachroia elongella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 481571.