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
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