''Phycita eulepidella'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Pyralidae first described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in western

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and probably in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. Its caterpillars are known to feed on '' Jasminum sambac'' and '' Ixora'' species.

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Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan
Moths of Australia Moths of Asia Moths described in 1896 Phycitini {{Phycitini-stub