Diplopseustis

Diplopseustis is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Lathrotelinae of the family Crambidae. It was described in 1884 by Edward Meyrick with Cymoriza minima Butler, 1881 as its type species, which is now considered a synonym of Diplopseustis perieresalis.^[1]

Diplopseustis
Diplopseustis perieresalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Lathrotelinae
Genus:	Diplopseustis Meyrick, 1884[1]

The genus currently comprises seven species distributed in the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian realm.^[1]

Species

• Diplopseustis constellata Warren, 1896
• Diplopseustis nigerialis Hampson, 1906
• Diplopseustis pallidalis Warren, 1896
• Diplopseustis perieresalis (Walker, 1859)^[2]
• Diplopseustis prophetica Meyrick, 1887
• Diplopseustis selenalis Hampson, 1906

Former species

Diplopseustis metallias Meyrick, 1897 is now placed in Sufetula.^[3]