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Raparna

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Noctuoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Family
  
Erebidae

Raparna

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Raparna is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

Contents

R kna raparna


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.

Taxonomy

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

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 (GuenĂ©e, 1852)
  • References

    Raparna Wikipedia