''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
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
n regions.
References
Moths described in 1863
Phycitini
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