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Charltona

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Crambinae

Charltona is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.

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Description

Palpi porrect, clothed with rough hair, and projecting about one and a half times length of head. Maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with hair. Frons rounded. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner. Wings long and narrow. Fore wings with rectangular apex. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 4,5 well separated at origin. Vein 7 straight and well separated with veins 8,9. Vein 10 free, whereas vein 11 curved and approximated to vein 12. Hind wings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Veins 4,5 from angle and approximated for a short distance. Vein 6 absent and vein 7 anastomosing with vein 8.

Species

  • Charltona actinialis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona albidalis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona albimixtalis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona argyrastis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona ariadna Bleszynski, 1970
  • Charltona atrifascialis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona bivitellus (Moore, 1872)
  • Charltona cervinellus (Moore, 1872) (including C. interruptellus, which may be distinct)
  • Charltona chrysopasta Hampson, 1910
  • Charltona cramboides (Walker, 1865)
  • Charltona desistalis (Walker, 1863)
  • Charltona diatraeella (Hampson, 1896)
  • Charltona endothermalis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona fusca Hampson, 1903
  • Charltona inconspicuellus (Moore, 1872)
  • Charltona interstitalis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona kala Swinhoe, 1886
  • Charltona laminata Hampson, 1896
  • Charltona ortellus (Swinhoe, 1887)
  • Charltona plurivittalis Hampson, 1910
  • Charltona rufalis Hampson, 1919
  • Charltona synaula Meyrick, 1933
  • Charltona trichialis (Hampson, 1903)
  • Charltona tritonella (Hampson, 1898)

    • Status unclear

  • Charltona consociellus (Walker, 1863)

    • References

    Charltona Wikipedia
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