''Doloessa ochrociliella'' is a species of snout moth (family Pyralidae) in the genus ''

Doloessa ''Doloessa'' is a genus of snout moths (family Pyralidae). It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848 and is known from India, Australia, New Guinea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and China China, officially the People's Republ ...

''. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1893 and is known from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Description

The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

of the male is 18 mm and the female is 20 mm. 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.

References

Moths described in 1893 Tirathabini Moths of Japan {{Galleriinae-stub