Section 3. Host-range of the stalk borers. Pages 23-31. In: W. F. Jepson. 1954. A Critical Review of the World Literature on the Lepidopterous Stalk Borers of Tropical Graminaceous Crops. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Queens Gate, London, 127 pages.

Keywords: plant host range, alternate plant hosts, part of plant attacked by larvae, top borers only attack the tip of sugarcane, early-shoot borer attacks sugarcane in the early growth stages, internode borer may attack several nodes below the top, the larvae of the rootstock borer bore up the middle of the stem from the base of the plant, stalk borers with wide plant host ranges, others have very narrow ranges