{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Paracles | image = Andesobia jelskii.JPG | image_caption = Adult ''Andesobia jelskii'' | authority = Walker, 1855 | synonyms = *''Motada'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Laora'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Massicyta'' <small>Walker, 1856</small> *''Borseba'' <small>Walker, [1865]</small> *''Palustra'' <small>Bar, 1873</small> *''Altimaenas'' <small>Dyar, 1913</small> *''Pachylaelia'' <small>Butler, 1878</small> *''Chilesia'' <small>Ruiz-Rodriguez, 1989</small> }}
'''''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== *''Paracles affinis'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles albescens'' <small>(Hampson, 1901)</small> *''Paracles alonia'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles amarga'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles antennata'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> *''Paracles argentina'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small> *''Paracles aurantiaca'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles azollae'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small> *''Paracles bilinea'' <small>(Schaus, 1901)</small> *''Paracles bogotensis'' <small>(Dognin, 1916)</small> *''Paracles brittoni'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles brunnea'' <small>(Hübner, [1831])</small> *''Paracles burmeisteri'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small> *''Paracles cajetani'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles cnethocampoides'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles contraria'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Paracles costata'' <small>(Burmeister, 1878)</small> *''Paracles deserticola'' <small>(Berg, 1875)</small> *''Paracles discalis'' <small>(Reich, 1933)</small> *''Paracles dukinfieldia'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles elongata'' <small>(Rothschild, 1922)</small> *''Paracles emerita'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles felderi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles fervida'' <small>(Schaus, 1901)</small> *''Paracles flavescens'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles fosterana'' <small>Watson & Goodger, 1986</small> *''Paracles fosteri'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small> *''Paracles fulvicollis'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small> *''Paracles fusca'' <small>(Walker, 1856)</small> *''Paracles gigantea'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small> *''Paracles haenschi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles herbuloti'' <small>(Toulgoët, 1975)</small> *''Paracles honora'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles insipida'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles juruana'' <small>(Butler, 1878)</small> *''Paracles klagesi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles laboulbeni'' <small>(Bar, 1873)</small> *''Paracles laguerrei'' <small>Toulgoët, 2000</small> *''Paracles lateralis'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> *''Paracles lehmanni'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles magna'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles marcona'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles nitida'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small> *''Paracles obscurior'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles ockendeni'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles pallidivena'' <small>(Schaus, 1904)</small> *''Paracles palmeri'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles palustris'' <small>(Jörgensen, 1935)</small> *''Paracles paula'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles pectinalis'' <small>E. D. Jones, 1908</small> *''Paracles persimilis'' <small>(Burmeister, 1878)</small> *''Paracles peruensis'' <small>(Dognin, 1907)</small> *''Paracles peruviana'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles phaeocera'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small> *''Paracles plectoides'' <small>(Maassen, 1890)</small> *''Paracles postflavida'' <small>(Rothschild, 1922)</small> *''Paracles quadrata'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles reversa'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small> *''Paracles rudis'' <small>Butler, 1882</small> *''Paracles sericea'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles severa'' <small>(Berg, 1875)</small> *''Paracles steinbachi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles surgens'' <small>(Walker, [1865])</small> *''Paracles tapina'' <small>(Dyar, 1913)</small> *''Paracles tenuis'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small> *''Paracles thursbyi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles tolimensis'' <small>(Dognin, 1912)</small> *''Paracles toulgoeti'' <small>Watson & Goodger, 1986</small> *''Paracles ubiana'' <small>(Druce, 1898)</small> *''Paracles uniformis'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1912)</small> *''Paracles uruguayensis'' <small>(Berg, 1886)</small> *''Paracles valstana'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small> *''Paracles variegata'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small> *''Paracles venata'' <small>(Schaus, 1894)</small> *''Paracles vivida'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small> *''Paracles vulpecula'' <small>(Dognin, 1907)</small> *''Paracles vulpina'' <small>(Hübner, [1825])</small>
==References== *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}} *{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/paracles/ |title=''Paracles'' Walker, 1855 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=December 31, 2017}}
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Category:Paracles Category:Arctiini Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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