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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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