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.
Taxonomy The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae of Erebidae or the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.
Species Raparna bipuncta Warren & Rothschild, 1905 Raparna confusa Mabille, 1900 Raparna conicephala (Staudinger, 1870) Raparna crocophara Turner, 1922 Raparna minima Warren & Rothschild, 1905 Raparna ochreipennis Moore, 1882
Former species Raparna didyma Mabille, 1900 was later Rivula didyma (Mabille, 1900) after Hacker, 2021. Raparna limbata Butler, 1898 was later Ozarba limbata (Butler, 1898) Euperia melanospila Guenée, 1852, then Raparna melanospila or Zargata melanospila was later Janseodes melanospila (Guenée, 1852) Raparna tritonias Hampson, 1902 was later Raparnodes tritonias (Hampson, 1902) after Hacker, 2019.
References
Staudinger (1870). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 14: 121.