Parasinga

Parasinga is a genus of moths in the family Notodontidae described by Sergius G. Kiriakoff in 1967.

Parasinga
Female Parasinga lichenina
Male of the same species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Notodontidae
Subfamily:
Dicranurinae
Genus:
Parasinga

Kiriakoff, 1967[1]
Type species
Parasinga lichenina
Butler, 1880

Characteristics

The genus is related to Syntypistis, but its species have deeper shaped wings, which are usually pale greenish or grayish. The antennae are long bipectinated (feather like) except the last 10% until the tip.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The genus is found in the oriental tropics from Sulawesi to Sundaland and Thailand as the most northern point[2] in a wide range of lowland forest types, such as hill dipterocarp, lower montane forest, kerangas, swamp forest and coastal associations.

Species
  • Parasinga bicolor (Kiriakoff, 1977)
  • Parasinga cinerascens (Kiriakoff, 1974) = Parasinga tuhana (Holloway, 1976)
  • Parasinga harmani (Holloway, 1983)
  • Parasinga insufficiens (Gaede, 1930) = Quadricalcarifera insufficiens (Gaede 1930)
  • Parasinga lichenina (Butler, 1889)
  • Parasinga pallidocollis (Kiriakoff, 1967)
  • Parasinga subapicalis (Kiriakoff, 1974)
  • Parasinga taeniata (Kiriakoff, 1977) = Quadricalcarifera taeniata (Kiriakoff, 1977)
  • Parasinga viridescens (Schintlmeister, 1993)

References
  1. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel (1983). The Moths of Borneo, Part 4: Notodontidae. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society & Southdene Sdn Bhd.
  2. Schintlmeister, Alexander; Pinratana, Pinratana (2006). Moth of Thailand, Vol. 5: Notodontidae. Bangkok: St. Gabriel. ISBN 9789748814940.


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