{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Mesolia | authority = Ragonot in de Joannis & Ragonot, 1889<ref>{{cite web |last=Nuss |first=M. |display-authors=etal |date=2003–2011 |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=2011-10-10}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = *''Deuterolia'' <small>Dyar, 1914</small> *''Eugrotea'' <small>Fernald, 1896</small> *''Euparolia'' <small>Dyar, 1914</small> *''Masolia'' <small>Hampson, 1919</small> }}
'''''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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1896 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180032#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |volume=Moths Volume IV |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== *''Mesolia albimaculalis'' <small>Hampson, 1919</small> *''Mesolia baboquivariella'' <small>(Kearfott, 1907)</small> *''Mesolia bipunctella'' <small>Wileman & South, 1918</small> *''Mesolia huachucaella'' <small>Kearfott, 1908</small> *''Mesolia incertellus'' <small>(Zincken, 1821)</small> *''Mesolia jamaicensis'' <small>Hampson, 1919</small> *''Mesolia margistrigella'' <small>Hampson, 1899</small> *''Mesolia meyi'' <small>Bassi, 2013</small> *''Mesolia microdontalis'' <small>(Hampson, 1919)</small> *''Mesolia monodella'' <small>Marion, 1957</small> *''Mesolia nipis'' <small>(Dyar, 1914)</small> *''Mesolia oraculella'' <small>Kearfott, 1908</small> *''Mesolia pandavella'' <small>Ragonot in de Joannis & Ragonot, 1889</small> *''Mesolia pelopa'' <small>(Turner, 1947)</small> *''Mesolia plurimellus'' <small>(Walker, 1863)</small> *''Mesolia presidialis'' <small>Hampson, 1919</small> *''Mesolia rectilineella'' <small>Hampson, 1899</small> *''Mesolia scythrastis'' <small>Turner, 1904</small> *''Mesolia uniformella'' <small>Janse, 1922</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Crambidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Crambidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Ancylolomiini Category:Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot Category:Crambidae genera
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