Doloessa

Doloessa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Doloessa
Zeller, 1848[1]
Synonyms
  • Carcinoptera Ragonot, 1893
  • Thagora Walker, 1863

Doloessa is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848 and is known from India, Australia, New Guinea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and China.

Description

Veins 8,9 given off at intervals from vein 7. Male with a fascia of black scales on the ventral side of the forewings in an beyond cell, and a similar subcostal fascia on the dorsal side of the hindwings.[2]

Species

References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  2. Hampson G. F. (1896). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma: Moths Vol. IV". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 10 June 2017.


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