Parasa Moore, 1859

Katewa, Amit & Pathania, P. C., 2019, Genitalic studies of four Limacodid species (Limacodidae Lepidoptera) including the description of a new species from Western Ghats, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4), pp. 373-380 : 376

Genus Parasa Moore, 1859

Parasa Moore (1860) 1858-9, in Horsfield and Moore, Cat. lepid. Insects Mus. Nat. Hist. East-India House, 2:

413. Type-species: Neaera chloris Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 , by subsequent designation by Fletcher and Nye, 1982:

120. = Neaera Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 Samml. aussereurop. Schmett. 1(1): wrapper, pl. 37, figs 176, 177.

Remarks: The genus Parasa was established on its type species Neaera lepida Cramer (1777) by Moore in 1860. A total number of 14 species of genus Parasa from the then limits of India was reported at that time. Out of 14 species, 04 species were reported from India. The genus is thoroughly revised by Solovyev and Witt (2009) and Solovyev (2014). The forewing is decorated with green scales make this genus most colorful genera of family Limacodidae . Down the middle of the thorax, a narrow line of brown scales, vertex green, frons and labial palpus brownish in colour. The most of the fore wing is covered with green in genus Parasa or be in the form of bands or spots. Male genitalia with claw at the uncus apex, which is not strongly downcurved and lateral lobes laking. Transtilla is simple or elongated, hairy and bifurcate processes. The genitalia in female are variable, ductus bursae long, short or coiled. The signum is wanting and present in the few Neotropics known species.