Doloessa ochrociliella

Doloessa ochrociliella (Ragonot, 1893)
(one synonym : Doloessa plumbolineella Hampson, 1901)
GALLERIINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA

Doloessa ochrociliella
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The moth of this species has brown forewings with a broad outlined band across each one.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The hindwings are white. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

drawing by Émile Louis Ragonot, listed as Carcinoptera ochrociliella,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae, in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Volume 7 (1893), Plate VIII, fig. 24,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in Australia in

drawing by George Hampson, listed as Doloessa plumbolineella,
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / Rédigés par N.M. Romanoff, Volume 8 (1901), Plate LIV, fig. 10,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Monographie des Galleriinae,
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / Rédigés par N.M. Romanoff,
Volume 8 (1901), pp. 488-489, No. 76, and also Plate 54, fig. 10.

Émile Louis Ragonot,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Paris & Saint Petersberg : Imprimerie Générale Lahiire, Plate 8, fig. 24.

Australian
Australian Butterflies

Australian
Australian Moths

(updated 5 February 2010)