2. Parena laesipennis species group

This species group contains three very similar and allopatric species, distributed from East Asia to western part of Indonesia, but not known from south India or islands east of the Wallace line (Map 3). This species group is characterized by: dorsal surface entirely yellowish brown to reddish brown; elytral striae not incised, replaced by lines of punctures, intervals flat; elytral sutural angles more or less pointed, forming short spines, outer apical angles more or less angulate; LL much bigger than LW.