Meharia

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.

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