Raparna
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 family Erebidae.
Description
[edit]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
[edit]The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae of Erebidae or the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.[3]
Species
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Zargata melanospila is now Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852)
References
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- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Raparna Moore, 1882". Afromoths. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Raparna". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- Savela, Markku (ed.). "Raparna Moore, 1882". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- Staudinger (1870). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 14: 121.