Charltona
Charltona is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Charles Swinhoe in 1886.
Description
Palpi porrect, clothed with rough hair, and projecting about one and a half times the length of the head. Maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with hair. Frons rounded. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner. Wings long and narrow. Forewings with rectangular apex. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 4 and 5 well separated at origin. Vein 7 straight and well separated with veins 8 and 9. Vein 10 free, whereas vein 11 curved and approximated to vein 12. Hindwings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Veins 4 and 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 Błeszyński, 1970
- Charltona atrifascialis Hampson, 1919
- Charltona bivitellus
- Charltona cervinellus
- Charltona chrysopasta Hampson, 1910
- Charltona cramboides
- Charltona desistalis
- Charltona diatraeella
- Charltona endothermalis Hampson, 1919
- Charltona fusca Hampson, 1903
- Charltona inconspicuellus
- Charltona interstitalis Hampson, 1919
- Charltona kala C. Swinhoe, 1886
- Charltona laminata Hampson, 1896
- Charltona ortellus
- Charltona plurivittalis Hampson, 1910
- Charltona rufalis Hampson, 1919
- Charltona synaula Meyrick, 1933
- Charltona trichialis
- ''Charltona tritonella''