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Parolulis Hampson
Type
species: renalis Moore,
Sri Lanka, Taiwan.
Parolulis
species
are somewhat similar to those of Tipasa in
size and build, and have long, upturned labial palps. The forewing distal margin
is angled centrally, and the portion anterior to the angle is slightly concave.
The forewing has some diagnostic facies features such as an oblique anterior
section to the pale postmedial that is edged darker distad, rendering it
conspicuous. The similarly pale antemedial is obliquely curved and also edged
paler distad. The reniform is distinctly bilobed.
The male
abdomen has the eighth sternite of the framed corematous type, but the posterior
fringe of setae on the sternite is very much wider than the anterior margin and
shallowly W-shaped. The genitalia of the type species have a paratergal sclerite.
The valves are of the Saroba group
type; the costal process is very long and slender, extending beyond the apex of
the valve.
The
female genitalia are also of the Saroba type,
the ostium set within a broad scobinate pouch associated with the eighth
segment, which has very small apophyses. The ductus is long, sclerotised,
ribbon-like. The base of the corpus bursae is twisted, with patches of
scobination just distal to the twist in the broadest part of the bursa, which
then tapers slightly distal to this.
The
genus contains the type species and those discussed below.
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