''Mesolia pandavella'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Crambidae. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1889. It is found in

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and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Description

The wingspan is about 18 mm in the male and 22 mm in the female. In the male, the body is dark reddish brown irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. The forewings with diffused whitish fascia from the 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 the apical area angled on the margin at vein 6, then dentate. A sinuous white line across apex. Cilia with a dark line though them from costa to the indentation. Hindwings whitish. Female much browner, with hardly a trace of the pale fascia on forewings.

References

Ancylolomiini Moths described in 1889 {{Prionapterygini-stub