(Photo: courtesy of James Bailey, Bentleigh, Victoria)

The adult has greyish fawn fore and hind wings with two or three pale-edged dark angled lines across each forewing. There are several white dots along each forewing costa. The wingspan is about 2 cms. The moth holds its substantial labial palps projecting forwards. When in repose, the moth is inclined to wrinkle its wings.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species was originally found across Asia and the western Pacific, including:

as well as in several parts of Australia, including:

More recently it has begun invading

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Steve Hodge, Brisbane, Queensland)

Further reading :

Wolfgang Speidel, Erik J. van Nieukerken, Martin Honey, & Sjaak (J. C.) Koster,
The exotic pyraloid moth Diplopseustis perieresalis (Walker)expanding in the West Palaearctic Region (Crambidae:Spilomelinae),
Nota lepid.,
Volume 29, Parts 3/4 (2000), pp. 185–192.

Francis Walker,
Pyralides,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 19 (1859), pp. 958-959, No. 2.

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(updated 24 March 2011, 10 August 2019, 30 November 2020, 10 November 2021)