| Metasia ophialis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilomelinae |
| Genus: | Metasia |
| Species: | M. ophialis |
| Binomial name | |
| Metasia ophialis (Treitschke, 1829) | |
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Metasia ophialis is a species of moth of the family Crambidae.
This species can be found in Central and Southern Europe (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). [1]
Metasia ophialis can reach a wingspan of 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in). Wings are whitish, with irregular transversal brown lines.
This species is rather similar to Dolicharthria bruguieralis .
Adults are on wing from June to September depending on the location. [2]
