| Paraona | |
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| Paraona staudingeri formosana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Lithosiina |
| Genus: | Paraona Moore, 1878 |
Paraona is a disputed genus of moths in the family Erebidae, considered synonymous to Macrobrochis by some but not all lepidopterists.
Paraona was erected by Frederic Moore in 1878 around the species originally described as Crambomorpha splendens by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. [1] Sergei Alphéraky described an additional species, Paraona staudingeri, in 1897. [2]
In 1993, the genus—at the time placed to family Arctiidae [lower-alpha 1] —was deemed a junior synonym of Macrobrochis by Yasunori Kishida. This synonymization was based upon the strong likeness of the male genitalia of Paraona staudingeri to those of Macrobrochis gigas , and explicitly did not involve examination of the type species of Paraona. [3] This classification was subsequently followed by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2001 in Part 7 of his book series The Moths of Borneo. [1]
In 2012, the genus was restored by Vladimir Dubatolov, Kishida and Min Wang, based on dissimilarity of the male genitalia of Paraona's type species, Crambomorpha splendens, to those of Macrobrochis. [4] [1] Following the restoration of the genus, it was once more treated as valid by subsequent authors. [1]
In 2024, the genus was once again synonymized with Macrobrochis, this time by Anton Volynkin, who stated that the 2012 restoration of the genus was based on a specimen held by Museum Witt Munich "identified by an unknown identifier as 'Paraona splendens'" and which is "dissimilar to the illustrations of P. splendens" by both the generic taxon author Frederic Moore and those by George Hampson. He concluded the specimen, rather than represent Paraona splendens, was instead a different, previously undescribed species he named Murmyshia obscuria . [1]
Wittia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Barsine is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Dolgoma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Frederic Moore in 1878.
Katha is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Moore in 1878.
Nannoarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Nobutoyo Kôda in 1988.
Nudaria is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae erected by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Prabhasa is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Wittia klapperichi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in southern China.
Katha conformis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in India, Thailand and China.
Katha magnata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Taiwan and Guangdong, China.
Prabhasa venosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in eastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, China and Taiwan.
Asiapistosia stigma is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Cheng-Lai Fang in 2000. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Guangdong.
Danielithosia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Ghoria nigripars is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in eastern India and China.
Eugoa grisea is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in Japan and China.
Nudaria nanlingica is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Guangdong, China.
Stictane chinesica is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1931. It is found in China.
Planovalvata is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae described by Vladimir V. Dubatolov and Yasunori Kishida in 2012. It contains only one species, Planovalvata roseivena, which was described by George Hampson in 1894. It is found in Myanmar.
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