Paracles Walker, 1855

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 416

Genus Paracles Walker, 1855

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Paracles Walker, 1855a: 717 .

Motada Walker, 1855b: 924 . — Type species: Motada lateralis Walker, 1855 , by monotypy.

Laora Walker, 1855c: 1482 . — Type species: Laora antennata Walker, 1855 , by monotypy.

Massicyta Walker, 1856: 1712 . — Type species: Massicyta fusca Walker, 1856 , by monotypy.

Borseba Walker, [1865] a: 318. — Type species: Borseba surgens Walker, [1865] , by monotypy.

Palustra Bar, 1873: 300 . — Type species: Palustra laboulbeni Bar, 1873 , by monotypy.

Pachylaelia Butler, 1878: 63 . — Type species: Pachylaelia translucida Butler, 1878 , by monotypy.

Antarctia Hübner, [1820] b: 191. — Type species: Phalaena metabus Cramer, [1776] , by subsequent designation by Watson et al. (1980: 11).

TYPE SPECIES. — Paracles contraria Walker, 1855 , by monotypy.

Figures

FIG. 23. — A-G, dorsal views. A, Altimaenas tapina Dyar, 1913, holotype male, Peru, Coropuna (USNM); B, Paracles laboulbeni (Bar, 1873),French Guiana, Piste de Kaw (MNHN);C, Chilesia rudis (Butler, 1882), holotype male,Chile, Coral (BMNH);D, Stenucha dolens (Druce, 1897), holotype, Mexico, Zacualpan (BMNH); E, Chlorocrisia irrorata (Rothschild, 1910), holotype male, Peru, Huancabamba (BMNH); F, Utetheisa ornatrix (Linnaeus,1758), Ecuador, Lita (coll. B. V.); G, Diaphanophora albiscripta (Schaus, 1905), holotype male, French Guiana, Saint Jean, Maroni River (USNM). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.