Oryza sativa Mountains of northern Luzon, Philippines. Glaszmann (1987) used isozymes to sort "O. sativa" into six groups: "japonica", "aromatic", "indica", "aus", "rayada", and "ashina". Garris "et al." (2004) used simple sequence repeats to sort "O. sativa" into five groups: "temperate japonica", "tropical japonica" and "aromatic" comprise the "japonica" varieties, while "indica" and "aus" comprise the "indica" varieties. Rice has been cultivated since ancient times and "oryza" is a classical Latin word for rice. "Sativa" means "cultivated". Debates on the origins of the domesticated rice are numerous. In 2011, genetic evidence showed that all forms of Asian rice, both "indica" and "japonica",
Earias cupreoviridis of costa suffused with pinkish yellow. There is a brownish irregular marginal band with a yellowish inner edge. Abdomen and hindwings pure white. The caterpillar is pale pinkish brown with olive-green speckles. Anterior tubercles are orange colored and the later are pinkish brown. There are jet-black spots above the spiracles. Larval food plants are "Abelmoschus esculentus", "Diospyros", "Gossypium", "Grewia tiliaefolia", "Corchorus", "Hibiscus", "Kydia calycina", "Malvastrum coromandelianum", "Oryza sativa" and "Sida cordifolia". Earias cupreoviridis Earias cupreoviridis, called the cupreous bollworm as a larva, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It