{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Paralpenus | authority = Watson, 1988 | type_species = ''Hyphoraia atripes'' | type_species_authority = Hampson, 1909 }}
'''''Paralpenus''''' is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae from the Afrotropics. The genus was described by Watson in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/paralpenus/ |title=''Paralpenus'' Watson, 1988 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=September 27, 2019}}</ref>
==Species== * ''Paralpenus atripes'' <small>(Hampson, 1909)</small> * ''Paralpenus flavicosta'' <small>(Hampson, 1909)</small> ** ''Paralpenus flavicosta punctiger'' <small>(Hering, 1928)</small> * ''Paralpenus flavizonatus'' <small>(Hampson, 1911)</small> * ''Paralpenus julius'' <small>Kühne, 2010</small> * ''Paralpenus strigulosa'' <small>(Hampson, 1901)</small> * ''Paralpenus ugandae'' <small>(Hampson, 1916)</small> * ''Paralpenus wintgensi'' <small>(Strand, 1909)</small> ** ''Paralpenus wintgensi zimbabweiensis'' <small>Dubatolov, 2011</small>
==References== {{Wikispecies}} {{Reflist}} *Watson, A. (1989) "A review of ''Spilosoma''-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)". ''Entomologica Scandinavica''. '''19''': 251–291. *{{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}}
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Category:Spilosomina Category:Moth genera
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