Doloessa ochrociliella is a species of snout moth (family Pyralidae) in the genus Doloessa. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1893 and is known from Japan, Australia, Sri Lanka,[2] and Taiwan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Doloessa |
| Species: | D. ochrociliella
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Description
editThe wingspan of the male is 18 mm and the female is 20 mm.[3] The male is a very pale chestnut color. The forewings with curved antemedial line, the area beyond it suffused with rufous. A black discocellular specks and an obliquely curved postmedial line present. Fascia on underside of forewings and upperside of hindwings blackish. Female with base and costa of forewings deeper rufous, where the rest of the wings pale. The antemedial and postmedial lines and discocellular speck almost obsolete.[4]
References
edit- ^ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (5 February 2010). "Doloessa ochrociliella (Ragonot, 1893)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "クロモンツヅリガ Doloessa ochrociliella (Ragonot, 1893)". Japanese Moths. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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