Raparna Explained

Raparna is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.

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.^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae of Erebidae or the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.^[2]

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

• Web site: Savela . Markku . Raparna Moore, 1882 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . August 1, 2018.
• Staudinger (1870). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 14: 121.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

   . George Hampson . 1895 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.

2. Web site: Raparna. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924153415/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=446688. dead. September 24, 2015. Fauna Europaea. 26 November 2014.