Raparna

Raparna is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.

Raparna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Boletobiinae
Genus: Raparna
Moore, 1882
Synonyms
  • Rapara Pagenstecher, 1909[1]

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching vertex of head and thickly scaled. Third joint long and naked. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia nearly naked. Forewings with rectangular or rounded apex. The areole sometimes very small if present, or usually absent. Hindwings with vein 5 from well above lower angle of cell. Vein 3 and 4 from cell or on a very short stalk.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae of Erebidae or the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.[3]

Species
  • Raparna bipuncta Warren & Rothschild, 1905
  • Raparna confusa Mabille, 1900
  • Raparna conicephala Staudinger, 1870
  • Raparna crocophara Turner, 1922
  • Raparna didyma Mabille, 1900
  • Raparna limbata Butler, 1898
  • Raparna minima Warren & Rothschild, 1905
  • Raparna ochreipennis Moore, 1882
  • Raparna tritonias Hampson, 1902

Former species
  • Zargata melanospila is now Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)

References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Raparna Moore, 1882". Afromoths. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. "Raparna". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  • Savela, Markku. "Raparna Moore, 1882". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  • Staudinger (1870). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 14: 121.


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