''Merulempista colorata'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralid ...

in the genus ''

Merulempista ''Merulempista'' is a genus of moths of the family Pyralidae described by Rolf-Ulrich Roesler in 1967. It is a small genus of eleven described species and subspecies, distributed in the Palearctic realm except '' Merulempista cyclogramma'' occur ...

''. It was described by Wolfram Mey in 2011 and is known from

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and e ...

References

Moths described in 2011 Phycitini {{Phycitini-stub