# Paracles

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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Paracles
| image = Andesobia jelskii.JPG 
| image_caption = Adult ''Andesobia jelskii''
| authority = [Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), 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 [moth](/source/moth)s in the subfamily [Arctiinae](/source/Arctiinae_(moth)). The genus was described by [Francis Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)) in 1855. The species range from Panama to Patagonia, with quite a few in the southern temperate region of South America.

==Species==
*''[Paracles affinis](/source/Paracles_affinis)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles albescens](/source/Paracles_albescens)'' <small>(Hampson, 1901)</small>
*''[Paracles alonia](/source/Paracles_alonia)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles amarga](/source/Paracles_amarga)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles antennata](/source/Paracles_antennata)'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small>
*''[Paracles argentina](/source/Paracles_argentina)'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small>
*''[Paracles aurantiaca](/source/Paracles_aurantiaca)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles azollae](/source/Paracles_azollae)'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small>
*''[Paracles bilinea](/source/Paracles_bilinea)'' <small>(Schaus, 1901)</small>
*''[Paracles bogotensis](/source/Paracles_bogotensis)'' <small>(Dognin, 1916)</small>
*''[Paracles brittoni](/source/Paracles_brittoni)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles brunnea](/source/Paracles_brunnea)'' <small>(Hübner, [1831])</small>
*''[Paracles burmeisteri](/source/Paracles_burmeisteri)'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small>
*''[Paracles cajetani](/source/Paracles_cajetani)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles cnethocampoides](/source/Paracles_cnethocampoides)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles contraria](/source/Paracles_contraria)'' <small>Walker, 1855</small>
*''[Paracles costata](/source/Paracles_costata)'' <small>(Burmeister, 1878)</small>
*''[Paracles deserticola](/source/Paracles_deserticola)'' <small>(Berg, 1875)</small>
*''[Paracles discalis](/source/Paracles_discalis)'' <small>(Reich, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles dukinfieldia](/source/Paracles_dukinfieldia)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles elongata](/source/Paracles_elongata)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1922)</small>
*''[Paracles emerita](/source/Paracles_emerita)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles felderi](/source/Paracles_felderi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles fervida](/source/Paracles_fervida)'' <small>(Schaus, 1901)</small>
*''[Paracles flavescens](/source/Paracles_flavescens)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles fosterana](/source/Paracles_fosterana)'' <small>Watson & Goodger, 1986</small>
*''[Paracles fosteri](/source/Paracles_fosteri)'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small>
*''[Paracles fulvicollis](/source/Paracles_fulvicollis)'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small>
*''[Paracles fusca](/source/Paracles_fusca)'' <small>(Walker, 1856)</small>
*''[Paracles gigantea](/source/Paracles_gigantea)'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small>
*''[Paracles haenschi](/source/Paracles_haenschi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles herbuloti](/source/Paracles_herbuloti)'' <small>(Toulgoët, 1975)</small>
*''[Paracles honora](/source/Paracles_honora)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles insipida](/source/Paracles_insipida)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles juruana](/source/Paracles_juruana)'' <small>(Butler, 1878)</small>
*''[Paracles klagesi](/source/Paracles_klagesi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles laboulbeni](/source/Paracles_laboulbeni)'' <small>(Bar, 1873)</small>
*''[Paracles laguerrei](/source/Paracles_laguerrei)'' <small>Toulgoët, 2000</small>
*''[Paracles lateralis](/source/Paracles_lateralis)'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small>
*''[Paracles lehmanni](/source/Paracles_lehmanni)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles magna](/source/Paracles_magna)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles marcona](/source/Paracles_marcona)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles nitida](/source/Paracles_nitida)'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small>
*''[Paracles obscurior](/source/Paracles_obscurior)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles ockendeni](/source/Paracles_ockendeni)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles pallidivena](/source/Paracles_pallidivena)'' <small>(Schaus, 1904)</small>
*''[Paracles palmeri](/source/Paracles_palmeri)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles palustris](/source/Paracles_palustris)'' <small>(Jörgensen, 1935)</small>
*''[Paracles paula](/source/Paracles_paula)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles pectinalis](/source/Paracles_pectinalis)'' <small>E. D. Jones, 1908</small>
*''[Paracles persimilis](/source/Paracles_persimilis)'' <small>(Burmeister, 1878)</small>
*''[Paracles peruensis](/source/Paracles_peruensis)'' <small>(Dognin, 1907)</small>
*''[Paracles peruviana](/source/Paracles_peruviana)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles phaeocera](/source/Paracles_phaeocera)'' <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small>
*''[Paracles plectoides](/source/Paracles_plectoides)'' <small>(Maassen, 1890)</small>
*''[Paracles postflavida](/source/Paracles_postflavida)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1922)</small>
*''[Paracles quadrata](/source/Paracles_quadrata)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles reversa](/source/Paracles_reversa)'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1908)</small>
*''[Paracles rudis](/source/Paracles_rudis)'' <small>Butler, 1882</small>
*''[Paracles sericea](/source/Paracles_sericea)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles severa](/source/Paracles_severa)'' <small>(Berg, 1875)</small>
*''[Paracles steinbachi](/source/Paracles_steinbachi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles surgens](/source/Paracles_surgens)'' <small>(Walker, [1865])</small>
*''[Paracles tapina](/source/Paracles_tapina)'' <small>(Dyar, 1913)</small>
*''[Paracles tenuis](/source/Paracles_tenuis)'' <small>(Berg, 1877)</small>
*''[Paracles thursbyi](/source/Paracles_thursbyi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles tolimensis](/source/Paracles_tolimensis)'' <small>(Dognin, 1912)</small>
*''[Paracles toulgoeti](/source/Paracles_toulgoeti)'' <small>Watson & Goodger, 1986</small>
*''[Paracles ubiana](/source/Paracles_ubiana)'' <small>(Druce, 1898)</small>
*''[Paracles uniformis](/source/Paracles_uniformis)'' <small>(E. D. Jones, 1912)</small>
*''[Paracles uruguayensis](/source/Paracles_uruguayensis)'' <small>(Berg, 1886)</small>
*''[Paracles valstana](/source/Paracles_valstana)'' <small>(Schaus, 1933)</small>
*''[Paracles variegata](/source/Paracles_variegata)'' <small>(Schaus, 1896)</small>
*''[Paracles venata](/source/Paracles_venata)'' <small>(Schaus, 1894)</small>
*''[Paracles vivida](/source/Paracles_vivida)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
*''[Paracles vulpecula](/source/Paracles_vulpecula)'' <small>(Dognin, 1907)</small>
*''[Paracles vulpina](/source/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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