Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Crambidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Mesolia | |
Mesolia pandavella is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Ragonot in 1889. It is found in India, and Sri Lanka.
Description
Wingspan is about 18mm in male and 22mm in female. In male, body dark reddish brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wings with diffused whitish fascia from base yellow median nervure to outer margin. A brown medial line with white inner edge, oblique from costa to vein 4 and then angled and dentate inwards on vein 2. A white line across apical area angled on the margin at vein 6, then dentate. A sinous white line acorss apex. Cilia with a dark line though them from costa to the indentation. Hind wings whitish. Female much browner, with hardly a trace of the pale fascia on fore wings.
References
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