Metalampra italica is a moth of the family Oecophoridae that was until recently considered endemic to Italy,[1] from which it was originally described in 1977 by Giorgio Baldizzone,[2] but that is now also known to occur in other European countries.

[1] The species has also recently been recorded in Croatia, Germany, France, the Netherlands—where it was first caught in 1985, but misidentified as Metalampra cinnamomea —[5] Switzerland and Belgium[4] and appears to be spreading its range.

[6] It is not clear whether M. italica has recently spread to Central Europe or if its presence there had merely so far remained unnoticed, at least in part due to misidentification of specimens as M. cinnamomea.

[1][6] These moths have bright reddish brown forewings with contrasting pale yellow longitudinal stripes on the sides and on the thorax.

The larvae feed in decaying wood, usually Quercus spp., beneath the bark and near several species of fungus, where they weave a loose web.