title: Mesolia
text: # 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
  