Miscellaneous Genera VI
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Raparna Moore

Type species: ochreipennis Moore, India.

This genus contains a number of Old World tropical species that typically have dull, pale, orange to yellow wings blotched, speckled and fasciated with dull red that sometimes has a violet tinge. The forewing has a bipunctate reniform. The male antennae are ciliate. The labial palps are upturned, the third segment slender, acute, as long as the second. The clypeofrons lacks scales. The hindwing margin is often slightly angled at CuA2.

In the male abdomen, the eighth sternite has the framed corematous structure, the pair of coremata well developed. The genitalia can have a scaphium. The valves are paddle-like, expanding to the apex, with numerous fine, inwardly directed setae along the ventral margin. There is a spine or digitate process in the middle of the valve that arises from a transverse base, with a triangular lacuna distal to the base, sometimes enclosing the process.

In the female, the ostium opens within an excavation in the anterior margin to the eighth segment; the apodemes are somewhat sinuous and arise from the base of triangular lobes to this anterior margin that flank the excavation. The ductus is long, narrow, simply sclerotised, becoming more membranous in the short section distal to the ductus seminalis. The corpus bursae is small, spherical.

The genus is most diverse in the Oriental Region. Three out of four Australian species listed by Poole (1989) are transferred elsewhere in Nielsen
et al. (1996).

An undescribed species has been reared from Indigofera (Leguminosae) in India (Robinson et al., 2001).

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