Raparna
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Boletobiinae |
| Genus: | Raparna Moore, 1882 |
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Raparna is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.
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. Fore wings with rectangular or rounded apex. The areole sometimes very small if present, or usually absent. Hind wings 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 Phytometrinae subfamily of Erebidae or the Calpinae subfamily of the Noctuidae family.[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
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ "Raparna". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- Raparna at funet.fi
- Staudinger (1870). Berliner Ent. Zeitsch. 14: 121.
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