''Merulempista oppositalis'' is a species of

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

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 Francis Walker in 1863 and is known from the Asian to

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n regions.

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Moths described in 1863 Phycitini {{Phycitini-stub