Paralephana

Paralephana
Paralephana nigriciliata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Calpinae
Genus:	Paralephana Hampson, 1926
Type species
Paralephana poliotis Hampson, 1926

Paralephana is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1926.

Species

Some species of this genus are:^[1]

• Paralephana angulata (Viette, 1966)
• Paralephana argyresthia Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana bisignata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana camptocera Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana catalai Viette, 1954
• Paralephana consocia Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana costisignata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana curvilinea Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana decaryi Viette, 1954
• Paralephana descarpentiesi Viette, 1954
• Paralephana exangulata Gaede, 1939
• Paralephana ferox Viette, 1958
• Paralephana finipunctula (Holland, 1894)
• Paralephana flavilinea Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana incurvata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana jugalis Viette, 1958
• Paralephana lakasy Viette, 1979
• Paralephana leucopis Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana linos Viette, 1972
• Paralephana lobata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana mesoscia Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana metaphaea Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana monogona Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana nigriciliata (Hampson, 1910)
• Paralephana nigripalpis Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana obliqua Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana patagiata Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana poliotis Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana purpurascens Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana pyxinodes Viette, 1958
• Paralephana rectilinea Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana salmonea Viette, 1966
• Paralephana sarcochroa Hampson, 1926
• Paralephana subpurpurascens Viette, 1954
• Paralephana syntripta Viette, 1958
• Paralephana talacai Viette, 1982
• Paralephana umbrata Griveaud & Viette, 1962
• Paralephana uniplagiata Viette, 1966
• Paralephana westi D. S. Fletcher, 1961

References

1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Paralephana Hampson, 1926". Afromoths. Retrieved March 24, 2018.

• Hampson, G. F. 1926. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae of the Subfamily Noctuinae (Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). 1–641.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.