Charltona

Charltona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Crambinae
Genus: Charltona
Swinhoe, 1886[1]
Synonyms
  • Charltonia Hua, 2005

Charltona is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.

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.[2]

Species

Status unclear

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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