Grass Moth

Description:

Crambidae; Spilomelinae; Sameodes; S. cancellalis (Zeller, 1852). "Sameodes cancellalis is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852. It has a wide distribution and has been recorded from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina, Taiwan, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, New Guinea, western and southern Africa, Fiji, the Cook Islands and Queensland, Australia. The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are brown, with white spots partly outlined in black on the forewings, and white bands across the hindwings. Wikipedia.

Habitat:

I spotted this little Crambid in in the grasses and foliage along the border of a rice field.