Eoreuma loftini

Eoreuma loftini, the Mexican rice borer, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1917.^[1] It is found in the southern United States, where it has been recorded from California, Arizona, Texas,^[2] Louisiana and Florida. It is also found in Mexico.

Eoreuma loftini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Crambinae
Tribe:	Haimbachiini
Genus:	Eoreuma
Species:	E. loftini
Binomial name
Eoreuma loftini (Dyar, 1917)
Synonyms
Chilo loftini Dyar, 1917 Chilo opinionellus Dyar, 1917

The wingspan is about 12 mm.^[3][4]