Paracles

Genus of moths

Paracles

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Subfamily:  | Arctiinae
Subtribe:  | Spilosomina
Genus:  | Paracles
Walker, 1855
Synonyms

* Motada Walker, 1855
* Laora Walker, 1855
* Massicyta Walker, 1856
* Borseba Walker, [1865]
* Palustra Bar, 1873
* Altimaenas Dyar, 1913
* Pachylaelia Butler, 1878
* Chilesia Ruiz-Rodriguez, 1989

Paracles is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was described by Francis Walker in 1855. The species range from Panama to Patagonia, with quite a few in the southern temperate region of South America.

## Species

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* Paracles affinis (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles albescens (Hampson, 1901)
* Paracles alonia (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles amarga (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles antennata (Walker, 1855)
* Paracles argentina (Berg, 1877)
* Paracles aurantiaca (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles azollae (Berg, 1877)
* Paracles bilinea (Schaus, 1901)
* Paracles bogotensis (Dognin, 1916)
* Paracles brittoni (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles brunnea (Hübner, [1831])
* Paracles burmeisteri (Berg, 1877)
* Paracles cajetani (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles cnethocampoides (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles contraria Walker, 1855
* Paracles costata (Burmeister, 1878)
* Paracles deserticola (Berg, 1875)
* Paracles discalis (Reich, 1933)
* Paracles dukinfieldia (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles elongata (Rothschild, 1922)
* Paracles emerita (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles felderi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles fervida (Schaus, 1901)
* Paracles flavescens (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles fosterana Watson & Goodger, 1986
* Paracles fosteri (Hampson, 1905)
* Paracles fulvicollis (Hampson, 1905)
* Paracles fusca (Walker, 1856)
* Paracles gigantea (E. D. Jones, 1908)
* Paracles haenschi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles herbuloti (Toulgoët, 1975)
* Paracles honora (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles insipida (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles juruana (Butler, 1878)
* Paracles klagesi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles laboulbeni (Bar, 1873)
* Paracles laguerrei Toulgoët, 2000
* Paracles lateralis (Walker, 1855)
* Paracles lehmanni (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles magna (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles marcona (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles nitida (E. D. Jones, 1908)
* Paracles obscurior (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles ockendeni (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles pallidivena (Schaus, 1904)
* Paracles palmeri (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles palustris (Jörgensen, 1935)
* Paracles paula (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles pectinalis E. D. Jones, 1908
* Paracles persimilis (Burmeister, 1878)
* Paracles peruensis (Dognin, 1907)
* Paracles peruviana (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles phaeocera (Hampson, 1905)
* Paracles plectoides (Maassen, 1890)
* Paracles postflavida (Rothschild, 1922)
* Paracles quadrata (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles reversa (E. D. Jones, 1908)
* Paracles rudis Butler, 1882
* Paracles sericea (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles severa (Berg, 1875)
* Paracles steinbachi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles surgens (Walker, [1865])
* Paracles tapina (Dyar, 1913)
* Paracles tenuis (Berg, 1877)
* Paracles thursbyi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles tolimensis (Dognin, 1912)
* Paracles toulgoeti Watson & Goodger, 1986
* Paracles ubiana (Druce, 1898)
* Paracles uniformis (E. D. Jones, 1912)
* Paracles uruguayensis (Berg, 1886)
* Paracles valstana (Schaus, 1933)
* Paracles variegata (Schaus, 1896)
* Paracles venata (Schaus, 1894)
* Paracles vivida (Rothschild, 1910)
* Paracles vulpecula (Dognin, 1907)
* Paracles vulpina (Hübner, [1825])

## References

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* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
* Savela, Markku. "Paracles Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 31, 2017.

Taxon identifiers

Paracles|

* Wikidata: Q5098871
* Wikispecies: Paracles
* BioLib: 524028
* BOLD: 97112
* ButMoth: 21379.0
* GBIF: 1803351
* iNaturalist: 470657
* Insecta.pro: 31843
* LepIndex: 43807
* NCBI: 695142

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