Meharia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cossidae |
| Genus: | Meharia Chrétien, 1915 |
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Meharia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Diagnosis
Meharia is distinguished from all other Cossidae genus by a number of apomorphous characters: the specific “tineoid appearance”, the reduction of the lateral processes of the juxta, the specific dorsolateral sclerotization of the asymmetric aedeagus and the specific ribbon – like epiphysis.
Description
These are small to medium-sized moths, females larger; eyes naked; male and female antennae bipectinate along their length; proboscis reduced; legs long, slender; foretibia bearing a ribbon-like epiphysis; forewing elongate, rounded on the outer margin; forewing pattern has alternate dark and pale spots and bands transversely; hindwing uniform.[1]
Distribution
Eleven species have been reported so far, primarily from the deserts and arid mountains of the Western Palearctic and Africa.
Species
- Meharia acuta Wiltshire, 1982
- Meharia avicenna Yakovlev, 2011
- Meharia baluchestana Alipanah & Yakovlev, 2021
- Meharia fischeri Yakovlev & Saldaitis, 2008
- Meharia hackeri Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev, 2011
- Meharia incurvariella Chrétien, 1915
- Meharia incurvariella incurvariella Chrétien, 1915
- Meharia incurvariella persica (Wiltshire, 1946)
- Meharia murphyi Yakovlev, 2013
- Meharia philbyi Bradley, 1952
- Meharia scythica D. Komarov et Zolotuhin, 2005
- Meharia semilactea (Warren et Rothschild, 1905)
- Meharia tancredii Sutton, 1963
- Meharia tanganyikae Bradley, 1952
- Meharia yakovlevi Saldaitis & Ivinskis, 2010
References
- ^ Borth, Robert; Ivinskis, Povilas; Saldaitis, Aidas; Yakovlev, Roman (2011-08-11). "Cossidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)". ZooKeys (122): 45–69. Bibcode:2011ZooK..122...45B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.122.1213. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3187673. PMID 21998527.
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