Mesolia

Mesolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Mesolia
Ragonot in Joannis & Ragonot, 1889[1]
Synonyms
  • Deuterolia Dyar, 1914
  • Eugrotea Fernald, 1896
  • Euparolia Dyar, 1914
  • Masolia Hampson, 1919

Mesolia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.

Description

Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending about twice the length of 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. Fore wings long and narrow, with rounded apex. Veins 4,5 from angle of cell and vein 3 absent. Veins 7,8,9 stalked and veins 10,11 free. The outer margin produced from apex to vein 5. Hind wings with vein 3 absent. Veins 4,5 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.[2]

Species

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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