''Culladia'' is a
grass moth
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genus
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(
family
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Crambidae) of
subfamily
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Crambinae
Crambinae is a large subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. It currently includes over 1,800 species worldwide. The larvae are root feeders or stem borers, mostly on grasses. A few species are pests of sod grasse ...
,
tribe
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Crambini
Crambinae is a large subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. It currently includes over 1,800 species worldwide. The larvae are root feeders or stem borers, mostly on grasses. A few species are pests of sod grasse ...
. Some authors have assigned the
synonymous
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taxon
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''Nirmaladia'' to the
snout moth
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...
family (Pyralidae), where all grass moths were once also included, but this seems to be in error.
Description
Palpi porrect (extending forward), thickly scaled and extending about twice the length of head. Maxillary palpi triangularly scaled. Frons rounded. Antennae of male somewhat thickened and flattened. Spurs long and equal. Forewings long and narrow. Vein 3 from angle of cell and vein 6 from below upper angle. Vein 7 absent, and veins 8 and 9 stalked. Vein 10 and 11 free. Hindwings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. veins 6 and 7 from upper angle and vein 7 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 8.
Species
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Culladia achroellum''
(Mabille, 1900)
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Culladia admigratella''
(Walker, 1863)
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Culladia assamella''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia cuneiferellus''
(Walker, 1863)
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Culladia dentilinealis''
Hampson, 1919
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Culladia elgonella''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia evae''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia hanna''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia hastiferalis''
(Walker, 1866)
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Culladia inconspicuellus''
(Snellen, 1872)
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Culladia miria''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia paralyticus''
(Meyrick, 1932)
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Culladia serranella''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia strophaea''
(Meyrick, 1905)
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Culladia suffusella
''Culladia suffusella'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in India and the Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipel ...
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Hampson, 1896
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Culladia tonkinella''
Błeszyński, 1970
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Culladia troglodytellus''
(Snellen, 1872)
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Culladia yomii''
Schouten, 1993
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Culladia zhengi''
Li & Li, 2011
References
Bleszynski, 1970. A revision of the genus ''Culladia'' Moore (Studies on the Crambinae, Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Part 50) ''Tijdschrift voor entomologie'' 113: 44-59Li, W.C. & Li, H.H., 2011. The genus ''Culladia'' Moore (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Crambinae) from China, with descriptions of one new species and one newly recorded species. ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'' 36 (3): 586-589.
Crambini
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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