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''Meharia'' is a genus of
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s belonging to the family Cossidae.


Diagnosis

''Meharia'' is distinguished from all other Cossidae genus by a number of apomorphous characters: the specific “tineoid appearance”, the reduction of the lateral processes of the juxta, the specific dorsolateral sclerotization of the asymmetric aedeagus and the specific ribbon – like epiphysis.


Description

These are small to medium-sized moths, females larger; eyes naked; male and female antennae bipectinate along their length; proboscis reduced; legs long, slender; foretibia bearing a ribbon-like epiphysis; forewing elongate, rounded on the outer margin; forewing pattern has alternate dark and pale spots and bands transversely; hindwing uniform.


Distribution

Eleven species have been reported so far, primarily from the deserts and arid mountains of the Western Palearctic and Africa.


Species

*'' Meharia acuta'' Wiltshire, 1982 *'' Meharia avicenna'' Yakovlev, 2011 *'' Meharia baluchestana Alipanah & Yakovlev, 2021 *'' Meharia fischeri'' Yakovlev & Saldaitis, 2008 *'' Meharia hackeri'' Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev, 2011 *'' Meharia incurvariella'' Chrétien, 1915 **''Meharia incurvariella incurvariella'' Chrétien, 1915 **''Meharia incurvariella persica'' (Wiltshire, 1946) *'' Meharia murphyi'' Yakovlev, 2013 *'' Meharia philbyi'' Bradley, 1952 *'' Meharia scythica'' D. Komarov et Zolotuhin, 2005 *'' Meharia semilactea'' (Warren et Rothschild, 1905) *'' Meharia tancredii'' Sutton, 1963 *'' Meharia tanganyikae'' Bradley, 1952 *'' Meharia yakovlevi'' Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2010


References


Cossidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)
* Yakovlev & Murphy, 2013. ''The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of two new species''. Zootaxa 3709 (4): 371–393 Mehariinae Cossidae genera {{Cossoidea-stub