Mesolia Explained

Mesolia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1889.

Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward), thickly clothed with hair, and extending about twice the length of the head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons with a conical projection. Antennae of male thickened and flattened. Tibia with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Forewings long and narrow, with rounded apex. Veins 4 and 5 from angle of cell and vein 3 absent. Veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked and veins 10 and 11 free. The outer margin produced from apex to vein 5. Hindwings with vein 3 absent. Veins 4 and 5 from angle of cell and vein 6 from upper angle. The upper margin of cell widely separated from veins 8 and vein 7 curving upwards to anastomose with vein 8.^[1]

Species

• Mesolia albimaculalis Hampson, 1919
• Mesolia baboquivariella (Kearfott, 1907)
• Mesolia bipunctella Wileman & South, 1918
• Mesolia huachucaella Kearfott, 1908
• Mesolia incertellus (Zincken, 1821)
• Mesolia jamaicensis Hampson, 1919
• Mesolia margistrigella Hampson, 1899
• Mesolia meyi Bassi, 2013
• Mesolia microdontalis (Hampson, 1919)
• Mesolia monodella Marion, 1957
• Mesolia nipis (Dyar, 1914)
• Mesolia oraculella Kearfott, 1908
• Mesolia pandavella Ragonot in de Joannis & Ragonot, 1889
• Mesolia pelopa (Turner, 1947)
• Mesolia plurimellus (Walker, 1863)
• Mesolia presidialis Hampson, 1919
• Mesolia rectilineella Hampson, 1899
• Mesolia scythrastis Turner, 1904
• Mesolia uniformella Janse, 1922

References

• Web site: Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . Search results Family: Crambidae . Butterflies and Moths of the World . Natural History Museum, London.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

   . George Hampson . 1896 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . Moths Volume IV . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.