Parachma

Parachma is a genus of snout moths. This genus is allied to Caphys Walker, 1863 Acallis Ragonot, 1891 and Zabobar Dyar, 1914.^[2]

Species

• Parachma atripunctalis Hampson 1906
• Parachma dilutior Rothschild 1913
• Parachma fervidalis Dyar, 1914
• Parachma huralis Dyar 1914
• Parachma ignefusalis Hampson 1906
• Parachma lutealis Hampson, 1897
• Parachma meterythra Hampson, 1897
• Parachma lequettealis Guillermot, 2011
• Parachma ochracealis Walker, 1866
• Parachma pallidalis Hampson 1906
• Parachma phoenicochroa Hampson 1916
• Parachma rufitinctalis Hampson 1916
• Parachma rufoflavalis Hampson 1906
• Parachma thermalis Hampson 1906

All moths of this species occur in the Americas, except P.laquettealis from La Réunion (Indian Ocean).

Former species

• Basacallis tarachodes (Dyar, 1914)

References

• Walker, 1866a. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV.– Supplement Part 4. — 34 (1965):i–iv, 1121–1533