Mesolia
# Mesolia

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.

## 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
