''Cosmopterix dulcivora'' is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

( Jiangxi),

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, Russia,

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, Samoa, the Philippines ( Negros), Java and Queensland, Australia.A study of Chinese Cosmopterix Hübner (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) with descriptions of new species
/ref> The length of the forewings is about 5 mm. The larvae have been recorded feeding on

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

species, including '' Miscanthus sinensis'' in Japan and '' Saccharum officinarum'' in Fiji, the Philippines and Queensland.

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dulcivora Moths of Japan {{Cosmopterix-stub