Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Crambidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Elophila | |
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Similar Elophila icciusalis, Elophila obliteralis, Elophila, Anageshna primordialis, Scoparia biplagialis | ||
Elophila gyralis, the waterlily borer moth, is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hulst in 1886. It is found in eastern North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
The wingspan is 16–30 mm. Adults are sexually dimorphic. Females mostly have uniform orangish-yellow to dark brown forewings, while those of the males are orangish brown to dark greyish brown. The hindwings range from whitish to grey. Adults have been recorded on wing year-round in the southern part of the range.
The larvae feed on the leaves of waterlilies, boring into petioles.