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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.^[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

^ 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.

[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.

[FE-3] "Raparna". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

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