Choreutis ophiosema

{{Short description|Species of metalmark moth}}

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| taxon = Choreutis ophiosema

| authority = (Lower, 1896)

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• Simaethis ophiosema Lower, 1896
• Anthophila ophiosema
• Eutromula ophiosema
• Anthophila regularis Pagenstecher, 1884

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Choreutis ophiosema is a species of moth of the family Choreutidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1896.{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Choreutis_ophiosema |title=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Environment.gov.au |accessdate=2011-12-19}} It is found in India, Sri Lanka,{{cite journal |last1=Koçak |first1=Ahmet Ömer |last2=Kemal |first2=Muhabbet |date=20 February 2012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1782757/Ko%C3%A7ak_A.%C3%96._and_M._Kemal_2012_Preliminary_list_of_the_Lepidoptera_of_Sri_Lanka._Cesa_News_79_1-57 |title=Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka |journal=Cesa News |issue=79 |pages=1–57 |publisher=Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara |accessdate=29 July 2018}} China, Taiwan, Amoy, the Moluccas, eastern Australia (the Northern Territory and Queensland) and Japan.

The wingspan is about 10 mm.

Larvae feed on Bambusa species.{{cite journal |last=Diakonoff |first=A. |date=1982 |url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149137 |title=On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |journal=Zoologische Verhandelingen |volume=193 |pages=1–124 |via=Naturalis Biodiversity Center}}