''Mesolia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s of the family

Crambidae Crambidae comprises the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, with the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies ...

described by

Émile Louis Ragonot Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the ''Société entomologique de France''. He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly Pyralidae, pyralid moths. ...

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.

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

* Ancylolomiini Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot Crambidae genera {{Prionapterygini-stub